Don Everly Quotes
I always thought I'd be the one to go first. The world might be mourning an Everly Brother, but I'm mourning my brother Phil.
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I find myself so easily discouraged. It is pathetic how easily I can be discouraged - easily discouraged by resistance, easily discouraged by opposition, easily discouraged by hardness of heart, easily discouraged by blindness.
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I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been.
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I always feel the danger because you might always be subject to an unexpected or emergency event.
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In some ways, with the security challenges this country has faced, we have had to put in rules and regulations for business to be able to sustain their growth and create jobs.
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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.
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I have always said that often the religion you were born with becomes more important to you as you see the universality of truth.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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I'm competitive. I don't like to lose.
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Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check.
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A good writer can set a thriller anywhere and make it convincing: the trick is to evoke the setting in such a way that it highlights the crime or unsettles the reader.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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I had a passport where I wrote 'artist' under 'occupation' and I remember thinking, 'That's it, it's proved!'
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I remember when the palm trees were short and Tomorrowland was modern.
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He was a silly guy. Out - do the other guy. That was his effort at all times.
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I'd like to do a really masculine film.
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After graduating in engineering I went to the University of Kansas to get an MA in economics as a vehicle for allowing me to decide if I wanted to continue in economics.
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Seeing a new play in a first-time production is so exciting - when it's good, you want to shout from the rooftops.
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A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.
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New York for me is about work. If L.A. were to become a West Coast version of that, I'd shoot myself. The climate, the lifestyle - it really fits as the yin to my New York yang.
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My dad - I mean, we've had our ups and downs, you know, just like any father and son probably has. But, you know, we get along really good, honestly.
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I had a sister who was killed in a motorcycle wreck when I was around 4 years old. My parents adopted her son, and so my nephew became my brother. He was three years older than me, so through him, I was exposed to hip-hop.
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My entire life has really revolved around music that was written about the time that I was born, 1908, to just before the First World War and shortly after it. This music I've always known, and it is that music that's most important to me.
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Interviewer: 'So Jeff, what are your main musical influences?' Jeff (after a long pause): 'Love, anger, depression, joy and dreams. ...And Zeppelin. Totally.'
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I always thought I'd be the one to go first. The world might be mourning an Everly Brother, but I'm mourning my brother Phil.
