Ian Anderson Quotes
Classical music only really came into my life in 1969. I wish I had heard classical music and church music when I was a teenager or even as a child.
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I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.
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The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.
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Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.
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Disrespect toward Jesus, as we have seen all too often in our society, is very offensive to Muslims.
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The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.
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We are not interested in cloning the Michael Jordans and the Michael Jacksons of this world. The rich and the famous don't participate in this.
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Most people who aspire to be president don't have a foreign policy and national security background. The exception was certainly Hillary Clinton.
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Nature teaches us that tens of billions of light years may have passed, and life in all of its expressions has always been subjected to an incredible combination of matter and radiation.
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Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was talks of jihad and of resisting the American occupiers, and slowly this turned into an organized movement.
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I never lose confidence. As soon as you lose confidence, you're done.
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
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The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
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A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.
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Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entity and are seldom thought to be important enough for serious scholarly consideration.
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
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Most people don't know what they spend in every single area, but they know they have a problem in particular areas.
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Really, ambition has gone. I look for things that tickle my fancy. You begin to see the end of life on the horizon. You think, 'It's not going on forever, this.' Let's make the most of what time I have left.
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Newborn screening is a public health intervention that involves a simple blood test used to identify many life-threatening genetic illnesses before any symptoms begin.
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When I was younger, my father was in the Foreign Service and we lived in Nigeria, Panama, and London, but for the most part I grew up in the South and D.C. I got the travel bug as a little person and I've bounced around a lot.
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I definitely have a dark side of me that can be pretty vicious... as we all do.
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I'm not really a partier, in general. I've definitely learned that that's probably the least interesting thing you can do with your time.
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Classical music only really came into my life in 1969. I wish I had heard classical music and church music when I was a teenager or even as a child.
