Bill Frisell Quotes
I hate labels; the problem is that if you say you're one thing, it's hard for people to imagine you as something else. Music is way more complicated than that.
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I began both auditioning with Pearl Jam and recording for Eleven. In the fall of 1994, I joined Pearl Jam.
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The impact of any particular writer on your own work is hard to discern.
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Any conception of human well-being you could plausibly have, the Taliban patently fails to maximize it.
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I do small things. I try to do good things every day.
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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Along with issues like global warming, I think a problem with the world today is population decline.
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It wasn't always easy getting up at 5 o'clock in the morning to go to the rink. Sometimes I wanted to just go back to sleep.
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I'm a rabid Steelers fan: I'm originally from Pittsburgh. So if the Giants or Pittsburgh are playing, the rest of Sunday is all about food and football.
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Ohio has long been an embarrassment to charter-school supporters nationwide, with its trail of scandal and graft and abysmal student performance.
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As long as people have been making little people, they've wanted to know how not to.
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The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.
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We ignore slow environmental changes unless they are crisis-driven, such as hurricanes in Florida.
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.
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Our country does not believe in the concept of your God and my God. We believe that all gods are one. We have different ways of accepting Him. All ways lead to Him.
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People always worry that buying tech products today carries a risk of obsolescence. Most of the time, that fear is overblown.
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Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few.
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THE INDUSTRIAL SYSTEM requires that prices be under effective control. And it seeks the greatest possible influence over what buyers take at the established prices.
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It's interesting: I've been doing this since I was 17, and it's kind of weird to see yourself grow up on television.
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Too many problem-solving sessions become battlegrounds where decisions are made based on power rather than intelligence.
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I'm a non-confrontational person. If I order salmon and I get chicken, I'm going to eat the chicken.
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The little kids in the stands are going to give you a good cheer. Sometimes, that overrides the other people.
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I hate labels; the problem is that if you say you're one thing, it's hard for people to imagine you as something else. Music is way more complicated than that.