John Abercrombie Quotes
I think once I started writing my own music and having my own bands, that's when I got more of a focus on what I wanted to do, personally.
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I think it is a mistake to judge science by Nobel Prizes.
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In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience, etc.
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A novel is not a rant.
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Writers should provoke disagreement.
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I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people.
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I didn't want to set up a women's studies program. I thought women should learn to operate in a coeducational atmosphere, because, especially in national security and international affairs, it's male-dominated.
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I couldn't follow nobody's rules.
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I had no desire to be a chef, but I had a desire to be someone who was heard.
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Most of the media... is positioning the merger with Compaq and the recent actions by Walter Hewlett and David Packard as a fight between the past and the future.
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Though social eugenics was discredited long ago, we still often think of the genome in quasi-eugenic terms. When we read about the latest discovery of a link between a gene and a disease, we imagine that we've learned the cause of the disease, and we may even think we'll get a cure by fixing the gene.
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One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.
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Time was God's first creation.
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Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.
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The U.S. has spent billions of dollars on educating and supporting teachers or developing curricula but no resources are applied to 'improving the brain' that a student brings to the classroom.
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It's very important not to lose your temper in a courtroom, or in anything else you're doing.
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You know sit with your arm around a little kid and read. It not only teaches them to read but it keeps the family strong.
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In the Depression we had to divert corn acreage.
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I can only speak for myself, but public school did nothing for me musically. I got the impression a musical career was frowned upon. But in the arts, resistance can often be the strongest inspiration.
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When you have a great audience, you can just keep going and finding new things.
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Every day is a lesson in focus for me, and not buying into the world's concept of what you have to be. I really try every day to be individual and not just in my style or my look or my music, but in my approach to life.
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When I read the script and saw the jazz music setting, and when I read the name of the filmmaker was Damien Chazelle, I immediately got this mental image of Antoine Fuqua.
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Good new songs are the backbone of the music industry. There isn't an artist out there who could survive without hit songs.
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I think once I started writing my own music and having my own bands, that's when I got more of a focus on what I wanted to do, personally.
