Phil Lesh Quotes

Yes, Pluton, actually, in the play. And I play him in my most stentorian voice.

Phil Lesh Grateful Dead

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• I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class people who were rather vain and foolish. There was no revolutionary grandeur to it. Nothing.

  

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• Morality covers our conduct, not what goes on inside our heads.

  

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• It baffles me that everything is so homogenized, because the world isn't, and yet we continue to support things that are so incredibly milquetoast.

  

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• After realizing that we would eventually be able to build molecular machines that could arrange atoms to form virtually any pattern that we wanted, I saw that an awful lot of consequences followed from that.

  

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• Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.

  

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• It wasn't until I let go of the idea of the brass ring that it showed up, and fortunately for me, it coincided with getting clean.

  

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• I don't let things go unless I'm ready for them to go.

  

  Faith Hill
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• People in America and Hollywood are very good at pronouncing my name, to begin with. Socially, they're very adept at listening to somebody's name and repeating it, cleverly in the first couple of sentences so the name sticks to begin with.

  

  Ioan Gruffudd
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• I have been attacked in Turkey more for my interviews than for my books. Political polemicists and columnists do not read novels there.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
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• In the New Yorker library, I have long been shelved between Nadine Gordimer and Brendan Gill; an eerie little space nestled between high seriousness of purpose and legendary lightness of touch.

  

  Adam Gopnik
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• One of the primary ways that astronomers study stars is to spread their light out into a rainbow, which we call a spectrum, and from that rainbow, we can learn something about what the stars are composed of and how hot they are, how bright they are, and how they're moving, at least how they're moving toward or away from us.

  

  Nancy Roman
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• 'God Made Girls' was such a success for me. I'm so blessed to have over half a million downloads on that song. I was the highest-charting new female in 2014, and I couldn't have done that without Big Machine and their support.

  

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• I can't walk by chocolate without eating it.

  

  Malin Akerman
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• For me it's very important to turn Kiev into one of the main centers of contemporary art in the world. There is New York. There's London. And there will be Kiev. Everyone will come and say, 'Wow!'

  

  Victor Pinchuk
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• I think getting up every morning is the most amazing thing any of us do. We know what's out there, and yet we keep going.

  

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• Juggling many projects and having all these accidental collisions that you can't predict enables a kind of comparative thinking. To focus on a single project from beginning to end is extremely difficult, not just for me, but for many people.

  

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• Forgiveness is the true nature of the ascetic.

  

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• The natural born reason we didn't git no yew-ranium when we crosses the li'l yew tree and the gee-ranium is on account of cause we didn't have no geiger counter.

  

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• As soon as I hear that there's something to get used to, I know that I won't; I sort of pledge myself to not getting used to it.

  

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• My wish for the world would be to end violence against women. My wish for myself would be for peace of mind.

  

  Gabrielle Union
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• I have some great digital pictures I could sell on the Internet [of Lucy] doing splits and handstands and running around and stuff. My parents came to the set, I brought them over from Scotland, and they loved her. They said, 'This girl has so much energy, where the hell does that come from?' It just comes from her. She's incredibly infectious.

  

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• We're all unlucky in love sometimes. When I am, I go jogging. The body loses water when you jog, so you have none left for tears.

  

  Wong Kar-wai
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• Yes, Pluton, actually, in the play. And I play him in my most stentorian voice.

  

  Phil Lesh Grateful Dead