Jon Lee Anderson Quotes

If you can find a way to confound people's prejudices, restore the humanity of people, individuals, you restore them to life.

Jon Lee Anderson

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• There's a sense of being under siege in many Muslim communities. People just assume there are agents or informants in their mosque now. It's a fact of life.

  

  Ibrahim Hooper
  • People
  • Life
  • Now

• Energy is necessary for economic growth, for a better quality of life, and for human progress.

  

  Mac Thornberry
  • Life
  • Energy
  • Quality

• All my adult life, if I didn't have several hours a day to sit in a room by myself, I would get antsy and irritable.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Life
  • Day
  • Myself

• I am not a member of Fat Liberation, nor do I think that obesity is healthy. But I do believe that in many ways my life has been a more charmed and happy one because I was always large.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Happy

• But when I was a teenager, the idea of spending the rest of my life in a factory was real depressing. So the idea that I could become a musician opened up some possibilities I didn't see otherwise.

  

  Wayne Kramer
  • Life
  • Up
  • Real

• We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Life
  • Action
  • Pain

• After reading Eminem's autobiography, which I did because I'm so interested in him as an artist, I respect him a lot. Even though he seems angry and mad, he's had to fight so many demons in his life.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Life
  • Respect
  • Reading

• My life would have gone along perfectly well, politically speaking, if it hadn't been for girls.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Been

• Most people go to ashrams or retreats to destress and rejuvenate themselves. But I come back to my roots, the place where I spent half my life. And when I return, I spend time in the farms, eating a stalk of sugarcane, driving a tractor, and chilling with childhood friends.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• My music is mostly for the music. And it gives the liberty to do anything which I want. And nobody limits me to one genre of music. But I learn from life and I try to give back to life, in a way, whether it's the thought of the song or whether it's the approach to the arrangement or anything.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Life
  • Music
  • Song

• I've worked all my life to shed myself of any character.

  

  Sam Neill
  • Life
  • Character
  • Myself

• One of my fantasies in my life has been that I was granted access with a camera to go back in time, and to film the actual campaign of Alexander crossing into India through Iran and Persia.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • Life
  • Time
  • My Life

• It doesn't matter whether I'm judged criminal. I have a great feeling of guilt - I have a feeling that I ran after Hitler like a wildfire without reason. If I can sacrifice my life to make something good, I'd gladly do it.

  

  Hans Frank
  • Life
  • Good
  • Great

• The fountain of death makes the still water of life play.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Life
  • Death
  • Water

• My whole life and my whole career, even through my music, I tell people: let's unify; let's show more love.

  

  DJ Khaled
  • People
  • Life
  • Music

• I am convinced that success is not measured by what you get out of life, but by what you give back.

  

  Jerry Moran
  • Life
  • Success

• Life is short. Ricky and I realize how lucky we were. We want to be together all the time.

  

  Christie Brinkley
  • Life
  • Time
  • Together

• The more you've lived, the more you've experienced, you emotionally know a lot more, especially if you haven't had a regular, straightforward kind of life.

  

  Lesley Manville
  • Life

• I think what's good is that men are now realizing that life is not a buffet where you just get to pick and choose whatever you want.

  

  Phoebe Robinson
  • Life
  • Good
  • Men

• Language, he understood, was chiefly important for the beauty of its sounds, by its possession of words resonant, glorious to the ear, by its capacity, when- exquisitely arranged, of suggesting wonderful and indefinable impressions, perhaps more ravishing and farther removed from the domain of strict thought than the impressions excited by music itself.

  

  Arthur Machen
  • Music
  • Important
  • Words

• Because I was extremely uncomfortable talking about sex with him at all and particularly in such a graphic way, I told him that I did not want to talk about these subjects.

  

  Anita Hill
  • Sex

• I'm vicious. I can be nice off the ice, but on the ice, that's not where it's time to make friends.

  

  Ashley Wagner
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Nice

• If you can find a way to confound people's prejudices, restore the humanity of people, individuals, you restore them to life.

  

  Jon Lee Anderson
  • Life
  • Humanity
  • Prejudices