John Cale Quotes
I missed out on my teenage years. I led a sheltered life. I was practicing scales instead of playing football.
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It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.
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In occupied Iraq, the introduction of new paper money took almost a year, 20 or so Boeing 747s, the mobilisation of the U.S. military's might, three printing firms, and hundreds of trucks.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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I have observed, through many years of living in north Brooklyn, that people, for example an ostensible group of friends, can be dangerous to one another.
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People in this country haven't stopped hating fat people, but they've become more kind to me, since in our culture, even though we hate our fat people, we love our celebrities even more.
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I hope that people will see that we don't have to sit by the sidelines and watch as the two major parties limit their choices to slightly different flavors of the status quo. It is, in fact, possible to join the fray, stand up for principles and offer a real alternative.
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I learned that when you stand up for what you believe in, you'll get a lot of support. But there are always going to be negative things said about you.
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Whenever you get to win, you feel the satisfaction of all of your hard work, all the sacrifices, all the blood, sweat and tears. It feels right and makes you realise that you are really doing the right thing.
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Animals are companions on this planet, not necessarily our feedbags.
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My father did irrigation jobs, and I would sometimes accompany him, and that gave me a taste of what was going on in the innards of India.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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I've turned down twentysomething million dollars for movies.
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President Bush's emergency declaration for the State of Texas is great news for the people and communities that have experienced the devastating wildfires firsthand. Already, communities have rallied to help neighbors in need.
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What interests me is starting businesses on our own, finding ideas that we can support, and simply investing in invention.
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I have just joined the Board of the Population Institute because I am convinced that early stabilization of the world's population is important for the attainment of this objective.
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A new era of responsibility is here.
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Our plans for 'Superman?' I can't say. This is the most super secret thing ever. It's like working for the government, like I'm on a covert mission.
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I never left a team in worse shape than I got it. Not once.
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In my child's-eye view, whenever I was exposed to pain, it meant that my mother had let me down.
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If you're out for two years, and you beat one guy with a full-time job, without disrespect, but we're talking about fighting for a world title. You can't just beat a guy that went there to cover some guy that got injured, and then this guy, after two and a half years, gets a title shot.
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To be good and lead a good life means to give to others more than one takes from them.
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That's the thing about the writer's life is that you have to have self-discipline. Otherwise you'll never get paid.
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You become so obsessed, and that's not a bad thing for a movie. Serve it with that sense that it's the whole world.
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I missed out on my teenage years. I led a sheltered life. I was practicing scales instead of playing football.
