Bruce Johnston Quotes
I really dig The Byrds. I think they are the most underrated - in their original form - pop group.
Quotes to Explore
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Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.
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I love, personally, the experience of going to the theater, going to the cinema.
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I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.
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I'm very happy in my life, but I do feel that music has a power to transport you to places or to beautiful moments in your past.
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Of course the success of A Boy's Own Story took me utterly off guard.
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Yes, our band will change and evolve, but we want to establish the reality of what this band truly sounds like.
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I make big objects that are simple, bright and clear, kind of ironic but hopefully funny because I love the shapes, and I get inspiration from toys and books, and I believe in art for everyone.
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My family is from Nigeria, and my full name is Uzoamaka, which means 'The road is good.'
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People who are over-educated become risk-averse.
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I think what history has done to Jewish people, frankly, cannot be made good by giving them a piece of land.
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When we get the final hardware, the performance is just going to skyrocket.
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What better way to connect with people than by staring and talking straight at them? Don't blink - that's one less connection you could have made.
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I feel honored that the Hispanic community in the United States have embraced me. I'm really happy and honored to receive their support.
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It's one thing to be banal, stupid, and idiotic on the inside. It's another to have it captured in writing.
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Everybody has problems.
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I never think of myself as wise. I think of myself as possessing a critical intelligence which I intend to allow to operate.
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The bad boys get all the best lines.
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Spiritual power is the eternal guide, in this life and the life after, for man ranks supreme among all creatures. Led forward by spiritual power, man can reach the summit destined for him by the Great Creator.
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Aim to write for an hour per day. I used to be a teacher, and an hour a day before school was all it took for me to write my first book. Don't get discouraged if a holiday or illness interrupts your writing habit. Just start it up again.
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The power of administrative bodies to make finding of fact which may be treated as conclusive, if there is evidence both ways, is a power of enormous consequence. An unscrupulous administrator might be tempted to say 'Let me find the facts for the people of my country, and I care little who lays down the general principles.'
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In K-12, almost everybody goes to local schools. Universities are a bit different because kids actually do pick the university. The bizarre thing, though, is that the merit of university is actually how good the students going in are: the SAT scores of the kids going in.
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More than anything, I’m excited to have the artistic freedom and opportunity to make a sophomore record. Everybody dreads the sophomore slump, whereas I am embracing it and can’t wait to either go down in flames, or take it to another level. It’s not going to be in the middle – it’ll be one way or the other. That’s how it has to be.
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I really dig The Byrds. I think they are the most underrated - in their original form - pop group.
