John Chrysostom Quotes
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I'm not looking to shock anyone.
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I've never been a really big fan of theatre. I don't know why. It's so much for effort. It's much more difficult for me than stage acting just because of the pressure that's piled on you and you have to learn the entire performance by heart.
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When I'm not touring, I hardly ever leave my house. Part of it is I get to do what I'm most passionate about, which is work on music and make new songs.
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Growing up my mother played Sarah Vaughan and Nat Cole in the house regularly.
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I began hearing rumors of apossible recording session with Neil Young. I was a huge fan of Neil's.
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By the time I left school, I had a lot of tenacity.
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The whole purpose of those attacks was to drive those contractors out. Lots of them had to leave. They were terrified.
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Frankly speaking, it's only the script that matters to me the most. If I like the script, then I just commit to myself and go ahead with it. But I also look at the commitment and confidence of the director of the film because it's him who will shape the film.
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It is not known, now, for what length of time the Tuatha de Danaan had the sway over Ireland, and it is likely it was a long time they had it, but they were put from it at last.
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I loved being in Bombay. It was a pretty thrilling place to walk around and explore.
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My father's death from prostate cancer in 1993 was tragic. He never complained about pain. He was a fighter. By the time he was ready to die he wasn't able to die in the way that he wanted to, which seemed an outrage to me.
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Radio is a really strange business now, too. There's a very narrow door and a very few people control what gets played.
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Night fell clean and cold in Dublin, and wind moaned beyond my room as if a million pipes played the air.
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By definition, startups are not constrained by the limits of established company culture. And so they push boundaries and develop new technologies and ways of doing things.
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If I were to compare the Olympic decathlon to fatherhood, I would say fatherhood is a lot tougher.
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I am not interested in slickness for the sake of slickness.
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I have always been fascinated by dark and mysterious stuff. I guess I have a pretty dark and gloomy side. Writing songs saves me from going completely gonzo.
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You can work, shop, do everything from home, and I find this unsettling.
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Did not Jupiter transforme himselfe into the shape of Amphitrio to embrace Alcmæna; into the form of a swan to enjoy Leda; into a Bull to beguile Io; into a showre of gold to win Danae?
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I don't write songs about a specific, elusive thing. I write about love, and everyone knows what it is like to have your heart broken.
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As for omens, there is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that.
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When I was 12, I had an operation at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, and they corrected the curving in my spine. I've got two 12-inch rods and eight screws going up my back keeping me straight, and they fuse together with my spine, so now I can't really live without them.
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Hell is paved with priests' skulls.
