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.
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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.
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Energy is necessary for economic growth, for a better quality of life, and for human progress.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.
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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.
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My life would have gone along perfectly well, politically speaking, if it hadn't been for girls.
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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.
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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.
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I've worked all my life to shed myself of any character.
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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.
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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.
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The fountain of death makes the still water of life play.
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My whole life and my whole career, even through my music, I tell people: let's unify; let's show more love.
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I am convinced that success is not measured by what you get out of life, but by what you give back.
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Life is short. Ricky and I realize how lucky we were. We want to be together all the time.
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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.
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I was just so blatantly shy throughout my life.
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Conscious experience is at once the most familiar thing in the world and the most mysterious.
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As I've gotten older, I've found that I'm not afraid anymore to throw my influences into making a record.
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I don't really believe in stories, only in the people who tell them.
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You moon the wrong person at an office party and suddenly you're not 'professional' any more.
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If you can find a way to confound people's prejudices, restore the humanity of people, individuals, you restore them to life.
