John Fahey Quotes
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When you actually fall in love, no one sees that other person the way that you do.
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The 'Room 93' EP was just kind of picking apart the sense of voyeurism and the sense of isolation and turning it into, essentially, a little black book and reflecting on - at that time - 19 years of me forming relationships with people.
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I think you have to do certain things in the pilot to get your network's attention - to break through... So maybe you push a little further in the first show.
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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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Avoid war, because that always pushes human beings backward.
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I used to sail a lot in all kinds of weather, competing on small sailboats in the ocean. And I travel a lot in Iceland on horses every summer, through the wild areas where there's no inhabitants and there are volcanoes.
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My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.
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War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.
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I believe that life is a journey towards God, and that no one has the right to insist that you go a certain road.
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Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease.
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I know politics; I know the media.
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Guys in slavery sang praises to the Lord to deliver them from bondage.
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When 'Carmen' premiered in 1875, it was panned by the critics. It survived 45 performances. It was called a musical and moral outrage. After Bizet died, at age 37, 'Carmen' became wildly popular. If you believe in your creation, and the rest of the world is laughing or yelling 'Boo,' don't give up.
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It's really hard not to fall into that trap of insecurity when you're a model. Beforehand, I never looked at myself in a huge monitor with 30 people around it every day.
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I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
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What I have done in my nine year career was just a glimpse of what I can do.
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The trials on the road to world harmony are no greater than the courage of those who accept the challenge.
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It's interesting: I've been doing this since I was 17, and it's kind of weird to see yourself grow up on television.
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In the White House, you can be on the pitcher's mound or you can be in the catcher's position. Put points on the board. Show people you can govern. Deliver on what you said you were going to deliver on.
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Even though money seems such an objective topic, it can also be the most intimate, and possibly harmful, part of a relationship.
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With my earlier books, I got quite bored being with one protagonist all the way through. With the Alex Morrow books, I wanted to do something a bit more holistic, so there were lots of different points of view, and I wanted to look at aspects of crime that you don't tend to look at.
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I was very blessed with 'N Sync. It was a big success and it was a lot of fun.
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If this allows someone not to have to make the trip to Seattle, that's what we want to do is service the people of Moses Lake.
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The other thing in composition is opening up the unconscious.
