Ian Anderson Quotes
I was not a great guitarist, so I sold my 1960 Fender Stratocaster in exchange for a Shure Microphone, made in Chicago, and a flute.
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When you're bullied in high school, even if it's the smallest amount, or you're actually tortured, I feel like everybody carries that with them. They always think of that one person who treated them badly in high school.
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Many writers from the suburbs of history, such as Ireland and Argentina, produced more original work than their counterparts in the United States; they still seem to.
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I really like 'Roar' and 'Dark Horse.' 'Dark Horse' I really like, and I feel I would sing that in the bathroom; I would buy that album, and I think Katy Perry's amazing!
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Being evil is easy.
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I did almost two years on 'One Life to Live,' so I was thinking, 'Oh yeah, I'm an actor now.'
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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It's not like I didn't do anything for 10 years and chose a new profession. I've been on the ice a lot. I'm not an outsider.
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Crankiness is a human attribute that, when people walk in the door of Xerox, they remain human. The best way to get the best out of people is to not force them to be something other than they naturally are. Now what do they have to be? They have to be respectful. You can't be ridiculously disrespectful.
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People tried to make me something that I wasn't at the beginning of my career.
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Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.
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Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.
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I don't ever want to be sad about my life.
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They are more beautiful than anything in the world, kinetic sculptures, perfect form in motion.
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I had a lot of fun in Cambodia, much more so in Cambodia than Vietnam.
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Despite great advances in women's rights, statistics show that when it comes to the balance of power between the sexes, equality is far from being a global reality.
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I like making sci-fi movies because I like watching sci-fi movies. I like watching horror. I like being in a horror movie. I'm a fan. My perspective's a little different just because I get to participate as well as spectate.
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I have a very vivid memory of the way my parents spoke, and the 50's that I grew up in are closer to the 20's, I think, than today in many, many ways.
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It's so easy to look foolish online.
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We wanted a pet food based on sound scientific principles and truth, not marketing hype.
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When I was a child I had a best friend who lived across the road from me. When her mother died unexpectedly it was like losing a member of my own family. I think I am still affected by the memory of that loss.
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Even in real life, I'd rather hang out with guys.
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I have nothing to teach you that will help you to make a living. as art teacher, advising his students
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I don't think if you asked any of my childhood friends they would say that I had a weird childhood; they might say there weren't a lot of regular rules, the conversations in the house were always very open, dreams were a great thing to talk about, everybody was making something all the time.
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I was not a great guitarist, so I sold my 1960 Fender Stratocaster in exchange for a Shure Microphone, made in Chicago, and a flute.
