John Zorn Quotes
You know, when we were kids, we had to go to a theater to see a movie. And then television came in and you had to wait until midnight to see the one you wanted to see. Now, all you've got to do is go to a store and buy it and you can watch it whenever you want!
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The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done. I try to make sure that I don't repeat my music.
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I'm not a monarchist. But I'm English. And I have an irrational emotion for my country.
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I'm a big fan of Katy Perry.
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Gossip can be entertaining: occasionally, I've heard the most fascinating things about myself I never knew.
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I'd never written a novel before, and I wrote a novel, and that turned out OK.
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The Nobel Peace Prize has always been a joke - albeit a grim one. Alfred Bernhard Nobel famously invented dynamite and felt sorry about it.
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Vulnerable young women are being brainwashed by the radical lies of ISIS militants in the Middle East.
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I enjoy directing more when I don't have to direct myself. I like when I can just be the director.
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I can see through almost any scam, especially one perpetrated by the federal government. I can see through it... they can't pull the wool over my eyes, it's absolutely freakin' impossible to pull the wool over my eyes about the government.
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It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles - the oppression of tyranny - to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.
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Native trees are so important to our ecosystem.
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All schools should teach children basic cooking skills. Every school should be able to buy sustainable, good quality food wherever possible from local sources. Every school should include food-growing in the curriculum. For some, that will mean twinning with willing farms. For others, it will mean literally building their own small farms.
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'Duty' is a refreshingly honest memoir and a moving one. Mr. Gates scrupulously identifies his flaws and mistakes: He waited too long, for example, for the military bureaucracy to fix critical supply issues like the drones needed in Iraq and took three years to replace a dysfunctional command structure in Afghanistan.
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I have won 85 caps and have had a great career with Wales and have enjoyed every minute of it.
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It's hard enough condensing 500 pages into a movie, and it would have been impossible to condense 800.
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No woman has to be a victim of physical abuse. Women have to feel like they are not alone.
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I am sort of a tea addict. I structure my day by cups of tea.
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Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
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I loved September 12th. I loved the way - it's awful but, boy, did I love that day when we all came together. All the bickering stopped. All the partisan, cheap partisan warfare stopped.
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Young people who are just starting out somehow need to let you know they know how to sing.
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A guy called Arthur Brown... was a big influence of mine... and also Ian Anderson from Jethro Tull.
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One of the great privileges of being a part of the Senate, it being the greatest deliberative body in the world, is out of the discussions of ideas, hopefully truth can ultimately be achieved.
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It's like, what happened, I was always leading fashion, and then the grunge thing kind of came along. And because I've been so on top in the '80s you know, I, you know, what can I do? Suddenly go grunge?
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You know, when we were kids, we had to go to a theater to see a movie. And then television came in and you had to wait until midnight to see the one you wanted to see. Now, all you've got to do is go to a store and buy it and you can watch it whenever you want!
