Keith Emerson Quotes
I don't care who I play to, as long as they enjoy listening to what I play.
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Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
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Our franchises have never been healthier. Our league, in terms of its economic footing, has never been healthier.
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I think I was probably an early teenager when I discovered Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and a bunch of people that are on a long list of artists. They were important to me, especially as an early adolescent.
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I told my agents that I love Holly Hunter and Frances McDormand and all of these women that are good at doing comedies as well as dramas.
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Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination.
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Several of the actors I've had the good fortune of working with stand out in my mind as 'ultimate'. I guess the obvious would be Tom Hanks, because he really is as fun and as genuine as he comes across in his films and interviews.
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The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.
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I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.
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When I arrive at my destination, I like to hit the gym, as I find exercise helps combat jet lag.
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If a company knows it may have to pay a large amount of money if it poses an unreasonable threat to others, it will have a strong incentive to act better.
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The first presidential election I really paid attention to was in 1988 when George H. W. Bush ran against Michael Dukakis.
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I want to be a female artist who is honest. I want to encourage other girls to be honest with who they are and not try to be picture perfect, because it's a woman's imperfections that make her perfect anyway.
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Car chases are as painstaking to make as they are fun to watch. They take a lot of time, and you have to keep the energy up.
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Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.
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I'll never be immune to criticism, and that's okay, and I'm very comfortable with that.
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If you kill someone, it shows that you are afraid of that person.
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Well, let me tell you, ants are the dominant insects. They make up as much as a quarter of the biomass of all insects in the world. They are the principal predators. They're the cemetery workers.
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Under the law, the government, whether it's state, local or federal, cannot give the Catholic Church or any religious institution money directly.
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I like the idea of a TV show. You take time to get to know your characters. You can introduce a lot of characters. You don't need your three-action set pieces that you usually need for movies.
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You cannot have a society where you spend more than you earn. I mean, it's just fundamentally not viable in the long run.
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There's only seven chords, so you got to use the same ones over and over. It's all in what you do with them.
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I grew up listening to a lot of Usher at 13 and 14. I have every Usher album that ever existed. So I grew up listening to a lot of Usher, Michael Jackson, Luis Miguel, a lot of pioneers in Latin music.
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To say prayers in a decent, delicate way is not heavy work. But to pray really, to pray till hell feels the ponderous stroke, to pray till the iron gates of difficulty are opened, till the mountains of obstacles are removed, till the mists are exhaled and the clouds are lifted, and the sunshine of a cloudless day brightens-this is hard work, but it is God's work, and man's best labor.
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I don't care who I play to, as long as they enjoy listening to what I play.
