Brian Jones Quotes

To lose a son under those circumstances - a violent death like my son went through, it just puts a burden on your heart.

Brian Jones The Rolling Stones

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• The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
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• When I was in my early 20s, I studied tae kwon do and hapkido. I earned brown belts in both of them.

  

  Karen Bass
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• I write songs, and I sing them. I never formulated a plan; I can't tell anyone else how to do this. But it feels right, so I just kind of enjoy it and get on with it.

  

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• If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.

  

  Ira Glass
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• Our built-in human system for mimicry explains why we humans can transfer our good and bad moods to each other - if we aren't careful!

  

  Karen Salmansohn
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• The film business was a great lesson in business combat and what it takes to survive.

  

  Larry Wilcox
  • Great
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• I started making movies in the early '90s, a few years after I discovered 'the cinema' during a three month stay in Paris during which I watched 100s of films.

  

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  • Movies
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• The interest on our debt is going to collapse this country.

  

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  • Country
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• I've tried coconut water straight up before, and to me, it's a little funky.

  

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• My buildings are not particularly expensive. It is not a tin shed. If you want a tinny car, you pay for that.

  

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• A mass of dust, world's momentary slave, Is man, in state of our old Adam made, Soon born to die, soon flourishing to fade.

  

  Barnabe Barnes
  • World
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• I'd realize it's not worth our time to worry. You do your best, and God will put the right people in your path.

  

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• I've seen the greatest actors in the world, transcendent talents, who can't find a home.

  

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• The writers who have the deepest influence on one are those one reads in ones more impressionable, early life, and often it is the more youthful works of those writers that leave the deepest imprint.

  

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• I cry at random things, like a flower, or someone giving me a present, or my sister giving me a nice hug.

  

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• Too many trees are killed to print the words of people who may not have all that much to say, and authors and journalists are equally culpable in this regard.

  

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• The idea of dependence is an explanation, whereas self-sufficiency is an unprecedented, nonanalogous concept in terms of what we know about life within nature. Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
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• Unfortunately, young Russian artists are in a difficult position today. Painting, like all other arts, rests on a continuity of experience. More than anything, young painters and sculptors need to know the works of their immediate elders. Such a continuity does not exist here to a sufficient degree in the visual arts.

  

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• The House of Lords must go - not be reformed, not be replaced, not be reborn in some nominated life-after-death patronage paradise, just closed down, abolished, finished.

  

  Neil Kinnock
  • Life
  • Death
  • House

• I read the papers, I surf the Web. At the beginning of the year, I try to see at least two episodes of every show on our network. Am I surfing? All the time. I'm aware of the landscape. I'm a competitor, so I have to know whom I'm competing with.

  

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  • Time
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• It's a miracle that David Bowie, Lou Reed and Iggy Pop are actually still alive today, given how hard they lived.

  

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• To lose a son under those circumstances - a violent death like my son went through, it just puts a burden on your heart.

  

  Brian Jones The Rolling Stones
  • Heart
  • Death
  • Son