Phil Lesh Quotes
Because, first of all, we were becoming aware during that tour that there was a group of people that was following the band around, and they weren't interested in coming in to the shows, they were just interested in hangin' out outside and tryin' to break in.
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Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.
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I'm training and preparing because nothing is predictable in boxing. I'm preparing for those rounds, and if it happens that I get a shot, whatever advantage I have, I will be ready for 12 rounds.
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I don't think I've ever sent a text to Gordon Brown because I'm confident that he would absolutely have no idea how to receive it. He barely managed to master WordPerfect 4.1.
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Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.
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'Anna Karenina' is just a story about a woman falling in love with a bloke who is not her husband. It's gossip, rubbish - on the other hand, it's the deepest story there could be about social transgression, about love, betrayal, duty, children.
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What is feminism? Simply the belief that women should be as free as men, however nuts, dim, deluded, badly dressed, fat, receding, lazy, and smug they might be.
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When I was a kid, I had two great guilty pleasures. One was horror movies and the other was martial arts movies.
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Any job very well done that has been carried out by a person who is fully dedicated is always a source of inspiration.
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I have the potential to be very strong and powerful, sometimes angry, sometimes passionate. I also can be shy and withhold that because I am afraid. I don't want to freak anybody out with my passion... So I struggle with that all the time.
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The Wreckoning is a darker song. But the record is positive.
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I was very skinny, braces; so I never thought I would be a model.
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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
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There's a finite amount of time on this planet for each of us. Sometimes, the only way we figure out how to deal with that reality - knowing that there will be an end to every story, and you don't know how many chapters are left in your book - is by living in denial.
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I know: I am a freakish geek. Or is that a geekish freak?
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For me, with music, there is no half-stepping. This is my calling.
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We should not have drug laws or a court system that disproportionately punishes the black community.
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I used to go down every year for the remembrance of Elvis' birthday. Memphis State College invited me to sit in the auditorium and speak to the people for one of those Elvis days.
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You take wins where you can get them because they're not easy to come by. You win at the major-league level, and you've done something.
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Belief is such a powerful thing - but because it is, it can also be very destructive and it's very easily manipulated.
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We all love to be admired and given compliments, but I don't really keep track.
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The world for our law enforcement community has changed dramatically: everything from filling out paperwork to relationships with the community and how they think the narrative is in the media.
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I grew up being a bit of a tomboy, a big-time tomboy.
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Because, first of all, we were becoming aware during that tour that there was a group of people that was following the band around, and they weren't interested in coming in to the shows, they were just interested in hangin' out outside and tryin' to break in.
