Frederic Raphael Quotes
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I'm thrilled that country music fans like my stuff, but so do a lot of people outside of country music, people who just love music. My goal is more to reach music lovers than to appeal to a genre. I love country music, and I'm proud to represent it, but I don't obsess over it as a category.
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It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it.
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If the lyrics are something new, then maybe I want to give it a more traditional form, or the other way around, but not have all one or the other.
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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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Working on my knowledge and education and learning how to become a more talented and wise person make me feel more sexy.
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Basically we just created our own label, but again we just did it to document our own music and create our own thing, so the major labels were just always out of our picture, we're not interested.
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I got a feeling about political correctness. I hate it. It causes us to lie silently instead of saying what we think.
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My mum told me once I was a Hindu.
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I am a believer in the journey and enjoying the journey.
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It's nice to just embrace the natural beauty within you.
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The government believed that adherence to authority was human nature, so the Gezi protests were a real surprise to them. After the initial moment of shock, they decided to severely punish those participating in what they called an act of disobedience to authority.
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I started knitting in the Congress, and it was a scandal - like, big scandal.
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I think whenever you love something or somebody it means that you have to extend yourself, you have to grow - get a little larger. You can't stay in your little comfortable - spot.
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All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.
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I got to know Elton John's older music by learning to like his newer stuff. 'The Lion King?' That's what I like.
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Martin Luther King's 'I Have a Dream' speech always sends me down some path, some trajectory of some creative idea.
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I learned from my mom to always keep pushing yourself.
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There are few professions whose primary objective is to advance the cause of humanity rather than simply to make money or accrue power. Among this limited group of humanitarians I would number teachers, nurses, bookstore owners, and bartenders.
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Please is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies. But sorrow is strong and abiding. Let sorrowful love wake in your eyes.
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I have never been an activist for anything.
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The path to youth takes a lifetime.
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Beware of color theories. Theories in color photography are dangerous. The plain fact that there are so many of them proves my point.
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For a lot of fans from the early days, they probably had issues they were A-ha fans, because it probably wasn't 'cool.'
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Modest successes are better known as failures.
