Jon Lee Anderson Quotes
Life has become terribly insecure. It's on the vortex of civil war. It's difficult to know how America will bring it back from the brink and build up good will.
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As you begin to realize that every different type of music, everybody's individual music, has its own rhythm, life, language and heritage, you realize how life changes, and you learn how to be more open and adaptive to what is around us.
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In some sense, when you take a child soldier out of an armed group, you've taken away the identity he or she has had for years, and you can't assume life is just going to return to normal.
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In this world, you can choose to be positive, or you can choose to be negative. You can choose to see things through a set of eyes that sees good, or you can choose to see things in life that aren't so good.
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I had learned of Gertrude Stein's bon mot that medicine opened all doors. This prompted me, in different moods, to view my future life as literary psychiatrist, globe-trotting tropical disease specialist, or academic internist.
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When I first ran for Congress, I went to my daughter Alexandra, who was going to be a senior in high school, and said: 'I have a chance to run. I may not win, but I'd be gone three nights a week. So, if you want me to stay, I'll be happy to.' And do you know what she said to me? 'Mother, get a life!'
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If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.
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For the life of me, I still don't understand why humans pray.
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The methodologies and best practices used to develop software can be applied successfully to any challenge in life.
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At one point in my life, I was very involved with social causes. I'm still involved, but now I have a family and it's important to me.
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My job playing Sam Malone was to let the audience in, to love my bar full of people. And that informed my life.
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The best things in life are often waiting for you at the exit ramp of your comfort zone.
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I don't believe in killing people. I believe in locking you up for the rest of your life.
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That I exist is a perpetual surprise which is life.
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All poetry is supposed to be instructive but in an unnoticeable manner; it is supposed to make us aware of what it would be valuable to instruct ourselves in; we must deduce the lesson on our own, just as with life.
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That judges of important causes should hold office for life is a disputable thing, for the mind grows old as well as the body.
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Sometimes stories are inherently important whether or not they have a direct relation to your life.
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It's tricky territory, height and co-stars. The only thing I can say is that it's never been an issue in my life.
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I prefer to commit 100 per cent to a movie and make fewer films, because it takes over your life.
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I played football for a huge portion of my life, all the way through college actually.
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My view is that, as management, the focus has to be on having a strategy and executing it. As you do the strategy and execution, it is important to communicate it consistently.
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I'd heard he was good, and what the hell sense does it make not to hire somebody because of their color?
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Twyla Tharp put it together from the material I wrote and recorded over my whole career. I thought it was pretty good, but how objective could I be?
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My parents got married when I was 12.
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Life has become terribly insecure. It's on the vortex of civil war. It's difficult to know how America will bring it back from the brink and build up good will.
