Jon Fishman Quotes
I don't know how you can go your whole life and not listen once to Bob Marley - what's the point?
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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Luckily, I was raised by people who'd already seen all the yuck stuff, which is why they originally didn't want me to act. I understood the difference between getting a part at a Hollywood party and getting a job.
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We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it's intolerable because books represent a kind of freedom to us.
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Early on, even before he was the front-runner, TV news was giving Trump far more attention than other candidates and far more than he deserved.
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Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.
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The patterns of big-band music are smooth and classical. It's got to be fresh. The brass section should crackle, like the sound of eggs being dropped into hot grease.
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As I view the Republicans in Congress, I don't see them as a real reflection of many Republicans in our country.
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A lot of my writer friends - some of whom are brilliant - work when the Muse calls them, for lack of a better description. You know, days of nothing, then this creative burst where they write for 36 hours straight fueled by caffeine and idealism.
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It has been wisely observed by the greatest of modern thinkers that mankind has progressed more rapidly in every other respect than in morality.
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How does one get bored of life?
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I was always very independent and looked out for myself. I think that ability really helped me in later years both in sports and in theatre.
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Our plans for 'Superman?' I can't say. This is the most super secret thing ever. It's like working for the government, like I'm on a covert mission.
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It was a decent New Year's, but it took a million officers to make it so.
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When we went into World War II, I was a tractor driver then. I drove tractors on the plantation. So when they start calling people my age, 18, up, I was one they called.
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I would say issues around human rights - either you're going to take a hard stance, or you're not. You can't borrow money from China the way the U.S. has done and then turn around and say, 'But you've got a human-rights problem.' You can't be half pregnant.
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That's the reality of my life - I do normal things and then get to go to film festivals and wear borrowed clothes and turn up at premieres and talk about things I am passionate about. But then you click back to normality and your family and friends.
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if have got my spindle and my distaff ready--my pen and mind--never doubting for an instant that God will send me flax.
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If I can stay [involved] with the sport, we can find different ways to motivate people and preach to them and explain to them that all they need is dedication to the sport.
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You want to love unconditionally everything you do, or don't do it.
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I don't know how you can go your whole life and not listen once to Bob Marley - what's the point?
