Landon Donovan Quotes
As athletes, most of the time we deal with fans cussing at us, saying how much we suck.
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I come from an immigrant family, but I know no other nationality apart from British.
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I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness.
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Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
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The Catholic Church was the church of the colonial fascist regime.
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I write better in Cape Breton... too many people around in Ontario. Down there I meet all sorts of non-human people, but they don't bother me, and I don't feel I have to apologize on behalf of my species quite so often.
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A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.
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In our Western culture, although death has come out of the closet, it is still not openly experienced or discussed. Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it.
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Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out.
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I feel fine about getting older because I'm in good shape. I'm 64 and I feel good.
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You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.
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I have a ton of videos on MySpace and YouTube.
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At times, training at home is a distraction, so training in Big Bear was a really good change.
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In college, I was a huge fan of 'Les Miserables.' I seem to remember that people who were into French literature preferred Hugo's poetry.
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You feel like you need to deal with a lot if you're from Cleveland, so you learn to let things roll off your back, and you learn that humor is the best way to deal with it.
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A resilient culture has a certain amount of resistance embedded in it. Not so much to capsize it, but enough so that it doesn't atrophy.
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All peoples are entangled in the net of the world market.
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My favorite is still the one that I started off with, which is a Les Paul Standard. I've played that at every gig I've ever had. And that's my starting point in the studio.
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I create fictional narratives, but it's based on literal people.
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I have been away from home since I was 17.
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Music is entirely subjective. I was thinking that for myself, for songwriting and what I like to listen to, to help motivate me as a songwriter, as a musician, there are certain things I lean towards and certain things I don't.
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I like Wagner's music better than anybody's. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time without other people hearing what one says.
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The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.
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It's nice to see a friendly face or have someone know your name.
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As athletes, most of the time we deal with fans cussing at us, saying how much we suck.
