Jack Bruce Quotes
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To imply that religious believers have no right to engage moral questions in the public square or at the ballot is simply to establish a Reichian secularism as our state faith.
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Technology has not only changed the way people are able to view movies, it has changed the way our industry produces and advertises movies.
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Open access is good, but we have to have ways and means where content that has been generated with a lot of effort and cost also gets the chance to monetise itself as is now beginning to happen in the West where some publications are really beginning to make their Internet revenue lines and subscription revenue lines quite significant.
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We see plenty of artistic work that reflects superficial social conditions, but very little work that questions fundamental values.
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Nowhere probably is there more true feeling, and nowhere worse taste, than in a churchyard (p. 244).
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Like so many kids, I just wanted to fit in, and I see now that I spent most of my life trying to be what I wasn't, trying to get people to like me.
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I remember thinking, 'If I don't love the woman that I look at in the mirror, I am never going to be successful.' That was the moment I had to start convincing myself to look in the mirror and start saying, 'I love you.'
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They always want to sell me as a hard bopper.
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We always talk about our kids being a great way to judge whether it's a hit song because there's something very basic about the way they perceive the music that I think needs to be there if it's gonna be a hit.
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Of course I consider myself a Jewish writer - I am one! All of the protagonists in my five books have been Jewish, and I wouldn't be surprised if all my future main characters were as well.
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I love to perform. But I don't like the traveling.
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It is one thing to talk about fundraising and another to do it as a candidate, and I have learned so much about how much money it costs to run a campaign and what it means to raise money.
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In every high school, there is a clique.
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Improvised music involves a lot of intuition and I like developing intuition.
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I'm a great admirer of secularism. At its best, I think it's one of the best things that we have. I don't believe in insinuating religion into conversation. I don't believe in excluding it from conversation. I enjoy the fact that people's innermost thoughts are their own.
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Comedians want to be rock legends for a day - that sounds fun to them.
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Sometimes I do give in to a scoop of sitaphal ice cream from Naturals or a chocolate chip cookie.
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I was obsessed with not knowing what happened after you were dead. And I sat or kneeled for a whole day with my head against the wall, trying to figure it out. But I couldn't, and I just said, 'Okay.' And then it was nothingness.
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Architecture depends on its time. It is the crystallization of its inner structure, the slow unfolding of its form.
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How can you expect to be rescued if you don’t put first things first and act proper?
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Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.
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Onstage I like to play with a an 18-inch speaker, which very few bass players do. I need that fat, underneath sound, which I've always had. It suits me admirably to do it like that, and I can imitate that sound by plugging directly into the board in the studio.
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I describe things in terms of body movements. I dance a bit to describe what sort of movement it ought to make, and that's a good way of talking to musicians. Particularly bass players.
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Bach is really the ultimate in bass players you know
