Ian Anderson Quotes
I may make you feel but I can't make you thinkYour sperm's in the gutter, your love's in the sink.
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I think one thing that kids who grow up on farms really have going for them is they have exposure to death and birth in a totally different way. I think it takes away a little bit of the mystery and a little bit of the fear, and I do wish I had that. And I wish I was able to grow my own food.
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I was 21 in 1968, so I'm as much a child of the '60s as is possible to be. In those years the subject of religion had really almost disappeared; the idea that religion was going to be a major force in the life of our societies, in the West anyway, would have seemed absurd in 1968.
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Merlin really taught me how to concentrate, that you play each play as if it were the only play. And if you put all the plays together like that, then you'll come out on top.
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There are over a million people running around the United States that were born to parents just on Match.com alone, to say nothing of the other properties we run, so that's a million lives that our company just had a little to do with in bringing their parents together.
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I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.
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There's no way to understand housing as it exists today without federal policy.
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I like Baudelaire's sentences quite a lot. I read and re-read him very often.
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I was this kid who had been raised in New York, and now all of a sudden, my mother decided that she was a Jewish divorcee and therefore she should be living in Miami Beach.
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I know girlfriends of mine who, when they were approaching pregnancy and starting a family, consistently went through a period right beforehand that was a last gasp kind of thing where they just wreak havoc. They fall apart, in a profound way, because there's some awareness that that's the last time they can do that for awhile.
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No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.
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I always believed in my ability, but I think in any sport you need that little bit of luck.
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A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.
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If I could gain 1,000 pounds and be healthy, I would love to do that.
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We can no longer tolerate losing one more innocent child or putting one more firefighter at risk in a fire that could have been prevented at the cost of pennies by making a couple simple changes to the construction of a cigarette.
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A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
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When caught in the clutches of a predator, the jelly produces a light display that is a pinwheel of light that is basically a call for help. It serves to attract the attention of a larger predator that may attack their attacker, thereby affording them an opportunity for escape.
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We need to learn to accept and certainly mourn any harm that comes to any human being on this earth. But we also need to not be vengeful.
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I didn't only have a perceptual problem, I was also so nervous and so upset. The process just didn't work. I lost enthusiasm for school and I flunked second grade. The teachers said I was lazy.
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A new, a vast, and a powerful language is developed for the future use of analysis, in which to wield its truths so that these may become of more speedy and accurate practical application for the purposes of mankind than the means hitherto in our possession have rendered possible.
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Following the proposed acquisition of Siebel by Oracle many existing Siebel employees may be concerned about their career prospects, ... We want to offer them an alternative to an environment of declining commissions, confused customers and uncertainty around career viability.
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I'm real clear, you know? There's no fogginess.
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In the 1980s, we were advised, why don't you follow Reaganomics or Thatcherite economics. We said, yes, there are good points, let's see how we can fit them in the Indian economy. Every country has its own way of moving forward.
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When people start yammering about artistic responsibility, artists become wary. The subtext of such talk is that the arts need to be regulated, which is to say censored.
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I may make you feel but I can't make you thinkYour sperm's in the gutter, your love's in the sink.
