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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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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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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Pantera is the only band I've ever been in, and at the start we used to play covers to make a living.
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There is nothing more important than staying alert, reading your opponent, that counts for both inside and outside the ring.
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The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people.
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Pity addresses the perceived suffering, not the whole individual.
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Fiction is the best way I know how to think something through.
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In past wars only homes burnt, but this time Don't be surprised if even loneliness ignites. In past wars only bodys burnt, but this time Don't be surprised if even shadows ignite.
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Let me tell you another place to look for some savings. We are currently spending $10 billion a month in Iraq when they have a $79 billion surplus. It seems to me that if we're going to be strong at home as well as strong abroad, that we have to look at bringing that war to a close.
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The strength of the United States is not the gold at Fort Knox or the weapons of mass destruction that we have, but the sum total of the education and the character of our people.
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War is just what we do. Yet, of course, the effects of it are repeatedly deeper, then deeper, then deeper.
