Ian Anderson Quotes
I don't think successful musicians were really put on this planet in order to have a great time, pat themselves on the back and say, 'Oh, what a clever boy I am!' I think that, like most artists, we were put on the planet to suffer just a little. And we do.
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The media's gotten lazy. They don't check anything out. You report what he reports.
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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As a very young girl, I understood that the interior activities of the home are as significant as the exterior activities of society.
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I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.
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In the Muslim world, there are many people who have been vocal and we have been very vocal against extremists. But how to win this battle is an ongoing battle. And we must continue to wage the battle for peace.
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I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go. You had three days of vocal training and performed your song at the end. I sang 'I Say a Little Prayer.' It's a tough song to sing but they gave me the confidence to go for it and belt it out.
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I actually started playing in little cafes around New York, and I have a lot of good friends of mine who are musicians who are struggling in New York.
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I think the market should reward banks that have been transparent in recognising their problems. I think the tendency of banks to hide the problem assets over a period of three or four years should not be allowed.
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There's a generative material relationship between the material and the image that comes up.
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At night, I love dressing up. I love putting on an outfit.
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You have the core hip-hop, which would just be beats and breaks, more something like what you hear with DJ Premier. Then you get into the more highly produced hip-hop, which is something like what DJ Khaled does. But at some point, it starts to get kind of pop.
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'The Outsiders' died on the vine being sold as a drugstore paperback.
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It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.
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To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.
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I like 'The Three Musketeers.' I like those kind of cool things where they were having a robe and a sword.
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You always care about your teammates, and you care about the game.
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No, I worked a lot for European television, doing documentaries in Brazil.
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I don't want to say, 'This is where Im going to be in five years and Im going to get there no matter what.' I want to leave it open. I'm not a desperate actress dying to star in a B movie in a bikini.
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I'm not very good at strategizing.
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For me, the show must go on - it doesn't matter how ill you are, you get on and do it.
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Even my older brothers' early success 10 years ago didn't change me since there was such an age difference.
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The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance.
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I don't think successful musicians were really put on this planet in order to have a great time, pat themselves on the back and say, 'Oh, what a clever boy I am!' I think that, like most artists, we were put on the planet to suffer just a little. And we do.
