Jon Lee Anderson Quotes
War is just what we do. Yet, of course, the effects of it are repeatedly deeper, then deeper, then deeper.
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I made my parents crazy. As a kid, I redecorated my bedroom every month. I would literally save my allowance and go buy things.
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Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.
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Like life, peace begins with women. We are the first to forge lines of alliance and collaboration across conflict divides.
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I don't like possessions.
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If you have multiples of anything, you have the possibility of repetition. Repetition creates pattern and also unity. Put anyone in a room with a pile of similar objects and say, 'I want a pattern by 3 P.M. or no dinner.' Anyone would come up with a design. It is easy, fun and available to anybody. Most people just don't have the nerve.
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I don't think of reflection on dark things as necessarily dark.
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My father was a teacher, and there were teachers all around, his friends, they were working for the Government and their behaviour was within strictly limited areas.
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One challenge in this industry is that you adopt a certain look for a movie, and then people don't get to see the movie for a year!
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It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards.
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The Ukrainian community is tight-knit by nature.
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I am a capitalist and I believe in making a profit.
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Curiously, the United States is full of writers who have one big work in their life and that's all.
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Rather than allowing jihadists to shut down debate, it must proliferate so much that they simply cannot kill us all.
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Not that painting would have been a release. The reason for doing it is the desire to create. I've got to do it! I've seen that, I can still remember it, I've got to paint it.
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We have a system that allows us to manage a free and fair election, free of fraud, free of intimidation, and that's what we delivered on election day, and we're very very proud of it.
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I worry about my grandchildren because the Internet can be brutal.
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I was playing a Fender Telecaster when I first joined.
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To turn the radio on and hear so much more diversity, it's so refreshing. That voice that cuts through what you've been hearing, it's inspiring.
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The business of America is not business. Neither is it war. The business of america is justice and securing the blessings of liberty.
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I have seen the dark universe yawning Where the black planets roll without aim, Where they roll in their horror unheeded, Without knowledge, or lustre, or name.
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The busier you are, the less time you have to make decisions.
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War is just what we do. Yet, of course, the effects of it are repeatedly deeper, then deeper, then deeper.
