Ian McLagan Quotes
Small Faces were really a soul band as far as we were concerned. That's what we listened to; that's what we played, you know? We were pretty much based on Booker T. and the M.G.'s.
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You know, it's hard sometimes to just detach yourself from what you're doing.
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Jay Townsend has offered, and I have accepted, his resignation from his position with my campaign. Now let's return to talking about issues that really matter to families: job creation, spending restraint and economic development.
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Traveling is one expression of the desire to cross boundaries.
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I'm not predicting; I just love playing with superconductors.
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The majority of work I do is in independent films, where you're lucky if you have five takes.
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I want to drink champagne from ladies' shoes.
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I love elephants! It's my favorite animal.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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I grew up in a village of 12 houses. We had a well and a cow.
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Serbia did not want to recognize our country in a peaceful way, so that is why they wanted to destroy us. All our efforts to find a peaceful solution were impossible. In order to save the people, NATO had to intervene.
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The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
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Building a better you is the first step to building a better America.
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English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.
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There's a group of people - maybe the secular Taliban is a good name for them - who have morphed this idea, that you have to accept my values being every bit as cherished as your values. That's not tolerance... There are too many things in this world which we sit back and tolerate.
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If you always feel like an imposter, you work harder, and that makes you better at your job. You've got to keep a level of variation; otherwise, you'll end up talking about nails and beauty products all the time.
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It's important for people to understand where things come or what they represent.
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But then I hit my 20s and only made two albums, and now I live in a ski resort as a ski bum basically.
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It's mystifying to me why the House leadership will not allow a straight up-or-down vote on a pay raise. I vote against every pay raise because taxpayers deserve better.
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I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.
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I wasn't happy at the career I was at and wanted to try something else, and so I tried fighting, and it's working out pretty well. I set my own schedule; I have my own training facilities. I'm not traveling as much, and I'm at home every night.
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Growing up, I was never the kind of girl to dream about wedding dresses and pretty houses.
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Knowledge of that which concerns us infinitely is possible only in an attitude of infinite concern.
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A combination of working in politics as well as teaching and being [an actor] certainly helped. I became so much more comfortable in front of a crowd. I felt like I was calling on all those other experiences.
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Small Faces were really a soul band as far as we were concerned. That's what we listened to; that's what we played, you know? We were pretty much based on Booker T. and the M.G.'s.
