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 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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Due to the injuries that I will have for the rest of my life, it is physically impossible for me to consider any career in wrestling.
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It doesn't bother me to talk about my private life, it doesn't bother me to talk about anything. My life is like a glass of water, transparent.
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I'm working on my own life story. I don't mean I'm putting it together; no, I'm taking it apart.
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One new feature or fresh take can change everything.
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I'm not an angry kind of person. What I am is a principled person.
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Everything's cyclical. Having been raised by actors, I watched their careers, and the challenge is to take time off.
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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.
