John Zorn Quotes
Great musicians accept everything that they hear and find something good. They take what they like and they throw away what they don't like.
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When I first got married to my husband, he had boxes full of photos of my two stepsons, ages 5 and 8 at the time, and I put them together in some little albums and wrote notes about how happy I was that they were a part of my life.
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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It is time for Hillary Clinton to permanently retire.
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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
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If I could only give three words of advice, they would be, 'Tell the truth.' If I got three more words, I'd add, 'All the time.'
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Some books I've kept because the binding is beautiful - I'm unlikely ever to read my grandmother's copy of 'The Life of Lord Nelson.' I'm addicted to secondhand bookshops.
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I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.
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I think we're the first generation to successfully integrate American society.
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All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.
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There are still so many movies made starring 50 men and one woman! A white male actor should never be allowed to complain about anything. Shut up and sit in the corner. I mean, seriously!
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Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.
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I believe we are our own inner hand - the godly power resides within each of us to create the lives we desire - no matter what the challenges!
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Long for me as I for you, forgetting, what will be inevitable, the long black aftermath of pain.
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I'm very much against war; I'm very much against terrorism of any kind. I find terrorism to be one of the most appalling things that can exist in society.
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So many people love sci-fi, and they're so loyal.
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It takes a little bit more mentally to figure out what I need to do to be most effective. The game is ever evolving. So you have to constantly pay attention to the change because you don't want to be left behind.
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Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.
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Through teaching myself how to be happy and get through things, I hope I can also do that for other people.
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It may be that everything the life science companies are telling us will turn out to be right, and there's no problem here whatsoever. That defies logic.
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Maybe some people that only listen to electronic music will pick up my record and get turned on to some of the story songs, some of the more country-type stuff.
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If you're writing a screenplay from scratch, it involves a lot of creation.
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The great thing about albums is it gives you a lot of choices, and we can all say that the album business is dead, but watch Taylor Swift. I don't think it's dead. I just think we've got to hit on the energies that make people want to collect albums.
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I started out doing triathlons because they terrified me! I'm a good swimmer, I learned to ride a bike in college, and I hate running. It seemed like something I could never do, so I decided, 'I'm gonna do it.'
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Great musicians accept everything that they hear and find something good. They take what they like and they throw away what they don't like.
