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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It can literally change someone's life; it's very positive for young teenagers to get into cosplay if they do it with their friends or with supervision from their parents - it can really foster their social skills.
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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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I sing to my wife; it helps me. She was my muse. I've written so many songs about her, to her, with references to her, and still do. She's a big part of my life. We were together for 33 years. It actually does me good - she's with me all that time in that way.
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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 really bugs me the way people criticise how actors look. We're not models. Models exist.
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Capital punishment has probably been responsible for a good deal of human progress. The overwhelming majority of those executed were of the sort whose departures for bliss eternal improved the average intelligence and decency of the race.
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I have loads of issues with the way classical music is presented. It has been too reverential, too 'high art' - if you're not in the club, they're not going to let you join. It's like The Turin Shroud: don't touch it because it might fall apart.
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When someone is in our tribe, I think it's particularly easier for us to tell them apart, because we're used to their facial features.
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No two people take on the information of being admirable and being admired in the same way.
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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.
