John Fahey Quotes
But I say these things in an objective dispassionate manner because, you know, and I can't explain why, but being one of the greatest guitarists in the world simply is not very important to me.
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Gandhi's ideas were rooted in a wide experience of a freshly globalized world.
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And it's sort of an old-fashioned ER, in that it's very much about the medicine, and how these people cope. There's very little about the personal lives of the characters.
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One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.
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By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.
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All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one.
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How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
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When I go to a restaurant, yeah, I know that a line is probably going to form in front of the table, but didn't I always wish for that? Yeah, I did.
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The progress of India is the destiny of one-sixth of humanity. And it will also mean a world more confident of its prosperity and more secure about its future.
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When I was younger, I was insecure for about 10 years: I wore glasses, had a cow's lick, buck teeth and braces. I looked ridiculous.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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Between now and then and I just felt it was ready and it was a long enough period gone by. I obviously didn't want to hurt anybody, you know. It was done out of a genuine memorial or tribute whatever you want to call it.
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There will be mental worries with the long jump before Rio, but I know I can get through it. It's just getting my confidence back. I know I have a big jump in me.
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Whenever I hear that I'm on the brink of stardom, I feel like I want to run into a cave.
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I would have to say that I have to concentrate more when I'm doing comedy. There are so many details that make up any character, but developing a character for a dramatic role seems to come more naturally.
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A funny thing happens in real estate. When it comes back, it comes back up like gangbusters.
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It is our duty, to ourselves and to our children, to see the new world as it is now.
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I have a strange relationship with influences because mine are mostly literary or painters or poets, who I'll even quote. I don't do tributes to cinema.
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My grandfather was a police officer. He taught Dad about lie detectors and police interrogation methods, so Dad got this old World War II lie detector and used it on us regularly. He was obsessed with the truth.
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What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre.
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All those who are around me are the bridge to my success, so they are all important.
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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.
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I just want to make sure girls know they don't have to carry the weight of achieving nearly impossible standards on their shoulders every day.
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But I say these things in an objective dispassionate manner because, you know, and I can't explain why, but being one of the greatest guitarists in the world simply is not very important to me.
