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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I was very involved with school by the time I was 15 and wasn't working much as a model.
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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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When people get taken over by the ego to such an extent, there is nothing else in their mind except the ego. They can no longer feel or sense their humanity - what they share with other human beings, or even with other life forms on the planet. They are so identified with concepts in their minds that other human beings become concepts as well.
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I'm learning kite surfing. It's a little surfboard you have on your feet with straps, and you have a big kite like a power glider in the air that pulls you. You don't need waves to move, and it makes a big spray of water as you go.
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A New Yorker is anyone who has the guts to really live in the city.
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I think race has been a burden for black Americans. Being Muslim has also been a challenge because so many people do not understand Islam.
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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?
