Jeff Buckley Quotes
The music comes from within and outside. Within is the big mystery of life; we've all got it.
Quotes to Explore
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What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place - which was bigger than it is now - was trade in ivory because the Gambia had a lot of elephants. They wiped out all the elephants and ended up selling Africans.
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The trouble is that, while my parents were great when they were apart, they were terrible together.
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The box office has become global. I think that factors in to the question of how to portray different ethnicities and cultures.
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Every time I go to Comic-Con, I'm jacked. I want to dress up and walk the floor and answer questions, because I'm excited about it. It's like making new friends.
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I love the way soft white cheese such as ricotta or the creamier mascarpone reflect the milieu in which an animal has been raised.
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I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.
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In the beginning, I found it hard to give my songs away, but now I've realised it's exciting, and it's only making me better.
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I think with world building, it's important to create a sense of culture even if it is just a fantasy, and the best way to do that is to look at a real human culture and see what makes it cohesive.
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Newspapers are busily experimenting with different models. Traditionally, and I suspect in hindsight very mistakenly, online news was free. And once given free access readers felt it was their entitlement.
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The constant variety is the most interesting part of my job.
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I am not opposed to intelligence reform on its face, but any changes should reflect the current context.
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Whatever requires an undue amount of thought or trouble or involves a large expenditure of effort and causes our whole life to revolve, as it were, around solicitude for the flesh must be avoided by Christians.
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Now that I'm gone, I tell you, don't smoke.
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Basically, I tend to see the world differently to other people, and I write books and stories to alter the imagination of people so that they also see the world in a different way.
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The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.
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It is possible that, post-Kyoto, the developed countries will recognise the requirements of the developing world.
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I was always a writer – working on campaigns was never a profession for me. It was something I did on the side, really, so the trajectory hasn't been a political operative who likes to dabble in writing and finds himself into stumbling on film and TV – that was always my goal.
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If you like a wine that you drink, now with your phone, it's so easy. Just take a picture of the label. You learn about it. You learn where it comes from and what the soil is like and why you like it. And that'll lead you to another wine.
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I bring my bike to work, and I make laps around our parking lot on my lunch break.
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I know when I walk into that classroom in the morning, even if it’s for a split second, at some point I’m being checked out.
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We all have burdens and we need to learn to carry each other's burdens, lighten each other's load.
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AT&T - it's not there anymore. General Motors is teetering. These are companies that one or two generations ago it seemed to be totally reasonable to bank your entire future on the company. Well, it's not the case any more.
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Life rarely presents fully finished photographs. An image evolves, often from a single strand of visual interest - a distant horizon, a moment of light, a held expression.
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The music comes from within and outside. Within is the big mystery of life; we've all got it.
