Ian Anderson Quotes
Prog didn't really go away. Just took a catnap in the late Seventies. A new generation of fans discovered it, and a whole new array of bands and solo artists took it on into the new millennium.
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Under-representation of women and other inequality among researchers is a problem that will not solve itself as women acquire competence.
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I can sing 'Happy Birthday' to you in twelve different places, but one of them is going to make you feel a certain thing, maybe it's a vulnerability, maybe an innocence, maybe another way is sexy and soulful or bluesy whatever it is, but with singers, exploring keys, I think, is important.
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Education in the past has been too much inspiration and too little information.
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My lesson from history is that if there is a strong moderate centrist party which can lead the country, there is no room for extremists from the right or left.
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She was a great lady. We raised three boys, were together as long as she lived, and now she's passed on.
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My favorite thing about being famous... it's not really as big of a deal as everybody says it is. Being on the road is tough, doing interviews, and all the stuff. It's still pretty tough.
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I might do 'X Factor' next year. It's looking good that I won't get the sack at Christmas.
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Your life, your circumstances change, and you have to continue to grow as a person, and once you have means and opportunity, you have to make different choices to protect what you have.
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We use the same possessive pronouns for everything, but do we own our lives or sisters or husbands in the same way we own our shoes? Do we own any of them at all?
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Many societal problems concern science, such as the energy crisis, genetic alterations of foods.
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Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.
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We've seen what happens when it serves a president's interest to flaunt his faith - which is almost inevitably does, since every poll affirms that Americans want their leader to submit to some higher power.
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It's very difficult switching over from one character to another.
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It's a funny thing: people often ask how I discipline myself to write. I can't begin to understand the question. For me, the discipline is turning off the computer and leaving my desk to do something else.
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We didn't know that Mother had gone through a passionate love affair or that Father suffered from severe depression. Mother was preparing to break out of her marriage, Father threatening to take his own life.
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Power in politics, sovereignty in America is with we the people, and that is the path to turning this country around: empowering the people.
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Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
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I got to go to Malaysia, Germany, Switzerland, Madrid, America.
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I think good art does come from a dark place.
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The true victory is the victory for democracy and pluralism.
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There is a way between voice and presence, where information flows. In disciplined silence it opens; with wandering talk it closes.
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It would be awesome to stay popular, but if I was only an underground artist, I would be okay with that.
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Picking a best friend who stands up for what she believes in, is true to herself and allows you to be yourself without judgement of how 'cool' you are? Well, now you're picking a friend for life.
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Prog didn't really go away. Just took a catnap in the late Seventies. A new generation of fans discovered it, and a whole new array of bands and solo artists took it on into the new millennium.
