Ian Anderson Quotes
I think the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, first of all, has got to be put into the context of being an American cultural showcase. It's there to be a museum showcase of all that's great about American music.
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I never thought I wouldn't succeed. Not because I thought I was good-looking - I just thought I would make it.
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I don't Twitter, although sometimes I think that I should.
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We can only learn to love by loving.
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But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
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There are a lot of dynamics and a lot of politics that go into records and getting played on the radio.
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Opening doors for us, helping us with our jackets and chairs - we love all that.
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When I was young, 'Scarface' was my favorite film. Al Pacino is my hero. I want to work with him.
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I now realize that I am a gay man before anything else. Other gays may think they're a Jew first, or black, or a banker, but I'm gay.
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The vast concourse of people who had assembled to witness the triumphant arrival of the successful travellers was of the lowest orders of mechanics and artisans, among whom great distress and a dangerous spirit of discontent with the government at that time prevailed.
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Progress in human affairs is more often a pull than a push, surging forward of the exceptional man, and the lifting of his duller brethren slowly and painfully to his vantage ground.
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I grew up really poor and have always been the type of person who will work earlier or work harder or more than the other person to even the playing field.
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As the CEO, I have to take care of the short term, mid term and the long term.
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Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you.
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Look: I don't want to live with a nuclear Iran. I would like to make it uncomfortable for them to seek it.
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Because I was so quiet, my father let me spend hours and hours next to him while he would sketch. Everyone else was always asking things from him. I wasn't asking anything. I was just happy to be there.
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President Johnson put destroyers in harm's way in the Tonkin Gulf not only once, but several times, with the, with a lot of his people hoping that it would lead to a confrontation and claiming that it had. And could have resulted in the lost of many lives in the course of it.
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Why do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it?
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When you are real in your music, people know it and they feel your authenticity.
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I think that it's the love of God that brings man into repentance. Once you embrace that love and have that fellowship with God, all those things that you shouldn't be doing will go away.
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One of the great debates about the Internet is whether it is making people more or less free.
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I'll hear something in my head, then eventually play it. But it's a subconscious thing. Most of the time I really don't know what I'm playing.
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I think the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, first of all, has got to be put into the context of being an American cultural showcase. It's there to be a museum showcase of all that's great about American music.
