Jean-Michel Jarre Quotes
I consider music like a mirage in the desert. You're obsessed with the ideal piece of music, and the more you think you're getting closer, it's not there.
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If you're thin-skinned, you don't belong doing what I do for a living.
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I seriously object to seeing on the screen what belongs in the bedroom.
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Being on your own would be sad, sick and weird. I don't trust myself. I need that balance.
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Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
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Instead of building walls, we should be building bridges.
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Programs like food stamps, unemployment insurance, Medicaid, and job retraining help Americans get back on their feet when they are down and out and laid off through no fault of their own.
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When I eat something like vegetable bibimbap, I get that warm and fuzzy feeling of eating stuff that I grew up with.
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If you are in a relationship, it has to be a good one. If it isn't, it's best to just leave it.
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I started traveling by myself as early as 5 to see my dad. I'd go to Toronto or Los Angeles, depending on what show he was doing, but most often New York, and we would hang out, and he'd take me to museums and Broadway plays. The ones that had the biggest impact on me were the George C. Wolfe productions.
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I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.
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Cornwall has lots of folk and Celtic music and has that kind of surfer vibe as well. That was my kind of upbringing.
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I think you grow wherever God plants you. I hope I'm growing as a person of faith, as a Christian. That should be our number one objective this journey of life. That all starts with a personal intimate relationship with Christ and then being in prayer every single day about all of those things - being tenacious about it.
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The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.
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I have a superhero complex. If I see anything bad happen, I run towards it, rather idiotically because, after all, what could I do?
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Spiritual infirmities such as tepidity are caused, not only by chills but also by fevers, that is, by excessive zeal.
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Let me live in a house by the side of the road and be a friend to man.
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I didn't ever plan to be a producer, and I didn't really know what I was getting myself into.
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One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.
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The marketplace tells us that good, visceral storytelling has a place. But there are lots of questions about the format that stories take.
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I'm coming from a Ginuwine and Usher background: slow and smooth songs. And that's why I really connected to Sam Cooke, because he was just very smooth. It's not like the James Brown types, which is all great stuff, but he was totally set apart from those guys.
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Howie Greenfield and I started writing music when I was 13 and he was 16. We lived in the same building.
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I've got to be confident in all the pitches I'm throwing so I can throw anything in any count.
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I consider music like a mirage in the desert. You're obsessed with the ideal piece of music, and the more you think you're getting closer, it's not there.
