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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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 -
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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Once you begin being naughty, it is easier to go and on and on, and sooner or later something dreadful happens.
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You feel like you're really a part of a movement when you're singing Journey at a karaoke bar.
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Somebody tell the damn players to start playing like old school.
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I've tried to work really hard on never phoning in the lyrics.
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My singing voice is somewhere between a drunken apology and a plumbing problem.
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There's clearly a Democratic dilemma, ... But while other Democrats are debating how to change the Bush tax cut, we're changing the debate entirely. Instead of just talking about what Bush has done, we are focusing on reforming the income tax system as a whole, ensuring fairness and integrity for middle-class taxpayers.
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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.
