Jeff Buckley Quotes
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I am confined to the Lego palate. I don't paint the bricks. I stick with what Lego has made. And the idea behind that is I do want to hopefully inspire kids to go home and create on their own. And if I do, I want them to be able to buy those very same bricks I use. So I don't alter the bricks; I just use what's provided.
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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I drink a fair amount of ramen noodles.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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A newspaperman said, 'You have to have a team in New York.' I replied, 'Who says you have to have a team in New York?' What came out in the papers was a headline that said, Giles Says, 'Who needs New York?' I confess that quote bothered me, and there seemed to be no way to dispose of it. It was repeated again and again.
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The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
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Dramatically it's always more interesting to conceal rather than reveal things.
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My favorite place is Central Park because you never know what you're going to find there. I also like that when I look out the windows of surrounding hotels, it's seems like I'm looking out over a forest.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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No amount of debt restructuring, even debt forgiveness, will help the Greeks achieve real prosperity. What they need is not short-term relief but, rather, a long-term cure.
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I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.
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I can see myself always writing songs - but I'm not sure if I'll always want to perform.
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Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.
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I do my own thing. And I believe what I do is the right thing.
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I really feel that political will is born out of popular will.
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I have a close association with Gen. Petraeus... What you get in Dave Petraeus is a very unique officer, a combination of intelligence, extraordinary depth of knowledge and understanding.
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I wanted to be an academic when I was 19 or 20. But, I've gone off that idea. The lifestyle is kind of lonely and isolated. I don't think that would suit me.
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In sailing, I single-hand, and I want to do the Horn. The Horn is the maximum expression of sailing, the way the Iditarod is the maximum expression of running dogs. It's not to write about it; it's to experience the maximum thing.
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All these portrayals we see of knights fighting must be absolute rubbish because knights in armour could literally have only had two or three blows and then they'd have had to sit down to have a cup of tea.
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I don't think I will be less good because there's less pressure on me.
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You're going to find when I'm not smiling, stay away from me.
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When things begin to go bad, the perception of people makes it worse.
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I am very observant of people's character.
