John Dryden Quotes
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I don't have any problem with being the guy whose album people put on when they're feeling sad.
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I tour with a piano, actually. Luckily I am able to hire people that deal with it completely and magically a piano appears on stage and then magically disappears when I leave.
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I'd thought sexuality was instinctive or natural, but it's profoundly linked to inner security and cultural context.
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I had no future with the Dodgers, because I was too closely identified with Branch Rickey. After the club was taken over by Walter O'Malley, you couldn't even mention Mr. Rickey's name in front of him. I considered Mr. Rickey the greatest human being I had ever known.
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I put some songs on the Internet back in 2009 - that's kind of how everything started with Washed Out. I had never really planned on being in a band or anything like that. It was kind of a hobby I did on my own, just recording music.
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I always thought I should be treated like a star.
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It's interesting, because I named my first album after my dad because I wanted to find him. My second album was named after my mom because I felt like I learned all my creative talents I learned from her. All the survival stuff, too. And then the next album is 'Maya,' which is not my real name. It's fake.
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The Melvins are grunge.
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Top knots are the easiest thing to create.
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When you are 16 there is no fear whatsoever. As you get older you play in more important games and that is when you start thinking about what will happen if you win or lose.
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Just because scientists have the knowledge to do it, the technology to do it, and some may even have a financial motive or other incentive to do it, does not make it right.
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I doubt that most people with short-term thinking love the natural world enough to save it.
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I've had a lot of struggles and I would be in a lot of trouble, I think, if I wasn't a Christian.
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I hate being too pretty.
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I'm writing, and just doing the same thing I always do.
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When you write about faith, people will be upset with you no matter what. I've heard from readers who were disgusted with the depiction of monotheistic religion. I've also heard from readers who were upset because my portrayal of faith did not adhere to their specific doctrines. Fortunately, I have high risk tolerance.
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I'm still traumatized that I'm going to be on a big screen in a white bikini and naked so who knows!
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The white man's dollar is his god, and to stop this will be to stop outrages in many localities.
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Sorrow and suffering make for character if they are voluntarily borne, but not if they are imposed.
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I am very instinctive. When I read a script, I think, 'Is this something I would want to watch?'
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Nor, in truth, is it of little importance to prevent the suspicion of any difference having arisen between us from being handed down in any way to our posterity; for it is worse than absurd that parties should be found disagreeing on the very principles, after we have been compelled to make our departure from the world.
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It had to happen to you, to concentrate your whole life on one point, and then discover that you can do anything except live at that point.
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Better one suffer, than a nation grieve.
