John Cale Quotes
I'm writing a movie about Mozart going to New York in the '60s. I've been reading so many novels.
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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Feeling has as much to say as the words do. You can have the greatest words in the world and if they're not believable, they don't strike a chord and they're not said convincingly, it's not a great song.
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Unfortunately, there is still much to mine in this world and explore creatively.
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At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.
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The three-thousand hitting thing was the first time I let individual pressure get to me. I was uptight about it. When I saw the hit going through, I had a sigh of relief more than anything.
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I'm the little dog who goes the wrong way - under the hoop.
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I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.
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It's strong to be vulnerable. To be able to communicate with other women is one of the most powerful things.
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And I'm a pretty positive person - I don't put a lot of energy into worrying, and I'm not a person who lives in a great deal of fear.
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I think confidence does come with time, and I've been really surprised by that, actually.
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Dolphins games always have been among the most popular NFL telecasts in England.
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I wouldn't overestimate the importance of my popularity in the country and abroad but at the end of the day it's not as important because I believe that my presence here could make some difference and it could encourage people.
Garry Kasparov
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I think it's very important to have a public discussion about why we're denying our soldiers the ability to exercise their Second Amendment rights.
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We are not a country that subscribes to policing any part of the world. The areas we are comfortable with are capacity building, intelligence sharing, exchange of ships, call on each other's ports, joint training and exercises.
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You are the music while the music lasts.
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Human attention tends to be focused on the satisfactions relationships are hoped to bring, precisely because somehow they have not been truly satisfactory. And if they do satisfy, the price of this satisfaction has often been found to be unacceptable.
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I'm just going to be myself; there's no reason for me to try and go out there and put a certain facade on or emphasize, 'Hey, I'm this. You need to believe it.' I just want to be the best that I can be, and if people like me, that's great, and if they don't, they don't.
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I have never retired - I have averaged 40 working weeks a year since 1933.
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That's the ultimate gratification in any business situation - do customers buy the product? And do they use it and do they come back and buy more of it?
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My best songs come from a place outside myself.
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I would fix other people's lines if they asked me on occasion. The hard part of writing is the architecture of it, getting the story and structuring it. Not the tweaking of lines.
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As technology increasingly takes over knowledge-based work, the cognitive skills that are central to today's education systems will remain important; but behavioral and non-cognitive skills necessary for collaboration, innovation, and problem solving will become essential as well.
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We found evolution will punish you if you're selfish and mean. For a short time and against a specific set of opponents, some selfish organisms may come out ahead. But selfishness isn't evolutionarily sustainable.
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I'm writing a movie about Mozart going to New York in the '60s. I've been reading so many novels.
