Jon Lester Quotes
Don't get me wrong: I wouldn't wish it on anyone. Even the word 'cancer' brings back the nausea and pain, the fear I felt, and the heartbreak I saw in my parents' faces. The smells that fill hospitals and the constant tired feeling that comes with treatment are also permanently stuck in my memory.
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I've been writing music since 4th grade, and I love putting words together and expressing things in a way that you can move your head to and you can really relate to, because I have a lot to say.
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It's a shame in a way that people come and go with one album.
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I live in a landscape, which every single day of my life is enriching.
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The Afro-American is not a bestial race.
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We must continue research into new forms of energy and into more efficient use of existing energy sources.
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I tell 'Hansel and Gretel' stories about heroic children who are lost in a world that seems friendly at first, and then isn't.
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Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.
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The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman's heart.
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I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you're sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me - so am I.
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Ah me! Love can not be cured by herbs.
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The more walking-around money I have, the less I walk around.
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Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising.
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I need one psychological expert to help me concentrate.
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The junior senator from Wisconsin, by his reckless charges, has so preyed upon the fears and hatreds and prejudices of the American people that he has started a prairie fire which neither he nor anyone else may be able to control.
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I get more fulfilment from being a father than I do from being an actor.
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When people are nervous, some people move around. Some people scratch their leg.
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We don't normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology.
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Country music fans are extremely supportive. Once they're with you, they're with you for life.
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One thing I've tried to never do is make wish lists. I try to have a very steppingstone mentality about this whole thing, where as soon as you make one step you visualize the next step, not five steps ahead.
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Whenever anyone says, 'theoretically,' they really mean, 'not really.'
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It has now become a very common sentiment, that there is some deep and radical wrong somewhere, and that legislators have proved themselves incapable of discovering, or of remedying it.
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I had almost three acres of land in Beverly Hills. And I had a big atrium of chickens because I love that feeling of being in the country and living from the soil.
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Bosnia is a country of hatred and fear.
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Don't get me wrong: I wouldn't wish it on anyone. Even the word 'cancer' brings back the nausea and pain, the fear I felt, and the heartbreak I saw in my parents' faces. The smells that fill hospitals and the constant tired feeling that comes with treatment are also permanently stuck in my memory.
