Jeff Buckley Quotes
They will accuse me of stealing from my father. They already stand in baited judgement, waiting for my first move, waiting to dump their loads of garbage on me.
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A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.
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We're all basically made of the same stuff: generosity and selfishness, goodness and greed.
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Bands that I've loved over the years are the ones that have a certain myth around them.
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I used to be someone that needed nine hours of sleep; otherwise, I didn't think I was going to sound good when I sang, and I was very disciplined and anal about my preparation. When you become a parent, there just isn't that time, you know?
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Most of my songs have names of people I've met or are dear to me. There are people who have privacy issues and about people knowing about their private life. But for me, I like to include few special names and few details about them to make the song very special to me.
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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You lay out a plan and - say a three-year plan or a two-year plan - and say, 'This is what we can do. We can do the transportation packages, like the highway bill and the water bill, and we can do some of these other areas - a farm bill - whatever it is, we lay out a schedule, and we put that committee to work to do that.'
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I am not the first man who wanted to make changes in his life at 60 and I won't be the last. It is just that others can do it with anonymity.
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In the South, there was absence of any leadership corresponding in breadth and courage to that of Abraham Lincoln.
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I'm a very restless person. I'm always doing something. The creative process never stops.
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Producing is hell, writing is frustrating, acting is really satisfying, directing is heaven.
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Life is going to unfold as it should because life always does.
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I'm interested in human nature. That's why I chose to become an actor.
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The vast concourse of people who had assembled to witness the triumphant arrival of the successful travellers was of the lowest orders of mechanics and artisans, among whom great distress and a dangerous spirit of discontent with the government at that time prevailed.
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I want to, at the end of the day, be able to say, 'I am a runner.'
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We've had Audrey Hepburn, we've had Twiggy, we've had Veruschka, we've had Kate Moss. I'm trying to figure out why I am to blame for skinniness.
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I love to make even villains people you can relate to. When you find out who did it, I think you almost like the person, which is not easy to do.
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Some movies to me are like vampires – they suck all of the energy out of me and I don't like that. I like to give the audience energy if I can.
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There are individuals who are working very hard to promote fear and antagonism towards Islam and Muslims in this country. It's fueled, in part, by the first African-American president that we have. Obama's father was a Muslim and people have used this to arouse hostility against him.
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People in office have to become models of correct behaviour. What they say and how they act should be beyond criticism. And when they commit the slightest mistake, they should quit their office on moral grounds without waiting to be proved guilty. Moral values must take centre stage in all walks of life.
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I have spoken to a whole group of millionaires, head executives at Microsoft. Boy did I chew those guys out.
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In any case, Ives encouraged me to go into music even though he himself had such a hard time being a composer.
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When I get home from a heavy work day, I make sure I get outside with the kids. I don't think there's any better cure than being active as a family outside.
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They will accuse me of stealing from my father. They already stand in baited judgement, waiting for my first move, waiting to dump their loads of garbage on me.
