Jakob Dylan Quotes
It's a little gross to put yourself in every song. I mean, how interesting do people really think you are?
Quotes to Explore
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Music seems hard-wired into our very being. It moves us, stirs us to action, sets us in motion, sticks in our memories and minds.
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It's so necessary to try and record the cultural memory of people. To set it down for generations to come. To better understand where we are headed. The problem is, a good portion of what we choose to remember is about willed forgetting. Which we all do, I believe, to protect ourselves from what is too difficult.
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Produce great men, the rest follows.
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I play Nitin Sawhney's 'Letting Go' repeatedly, nonstop. I find it transformative. I'm so glad iPods were invented so I didn't have to drive everyone around me mad with the repetition.
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When I first came out with my fans and the wind hit me, I almost took off.
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The impact of any particular writer on your own work is hard to discern.
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We need to protect the privacy rights of all Americans, and that means stopping the federal government from spying on the cellphones and emails of law-abiding citizens.
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I'm associated with gospel music in the minds of millions of people.
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Christ imparts the capacity of conquest to our lives every single day that we are willing to believe Him.
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I am young, and I think all young guys would love to play a superhero - any superhero - it doesn't matter. I could be a superhero that would just turn into a big blob or something like that, but I could tell all the ladies, 'Hey, I am superhero!'
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The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted.
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When this space walk will be completed, then the arm will be fully operational and ready for the next activity that will be pretty much the testing, the first flight testing of the space station arm.
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I like writers who seem to write because they have to. You get the feeling of this burning desire to tell a story. I find it in Peter Carey, Nicola Barker, Ali Smith and David Foster Wallace.
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If I had a spreadsheet on my computer, it looked like I was busy.
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I'm vehemently against population transfer. I'm against expelling anyone from his house, ever - whether it be a Jew or an Arab.
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Take the time today to understand your contribution to any bad event you've just been through.
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When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.
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I actually interviewed other people about myself, and that alerted me to the fact that I had to really investigate my memories.
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If you don't like me, don't turn your television on at the holidays, because you won't be able to escape.
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I was very dramatic - very, like, 'It's never going to happen. My life is over at 16 because I'm not already famous. I'm not going to get my record deal. I'm not going to be able to sing for a living.'
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I get an awful lot of people coming up and saying they went to school with me. There must have been 80,000 pupils at that school!
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Kids these days are kind of going back to Tupac and Snoop Doggy Dogg as examples of people that stand for something.
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I think that the environment is very a complicated question. I am very sympathetic to people who support the environment who live in the United States. I am very sympathetic to people who don't support the environment who live in a very poor country.
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It's a little gross to put yourself in every song. I mean, how interesting do people really think you are?
