Jon Lord Quotes
Working against a restriction - for me - often produces greater things than getting rid of all boundaries.
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First time I sang, I was singing Alicia Keys in the bathroom of my mom's beauty shop. I was six.
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I became a man. Before that I was a little boy.
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I'm an optimist; I always hope that each new script is going to be a great story.
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I'm fascinated by sports, the buzz of winning, and the buzz of losing.
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Advertising is the life of trade.
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Safeco Field is a lot like a National League park. Because of that, we're more of a pitching-defensive type club. Anaheim and Oakland - and even Texas - are more offensive oriented. We're a club that doesn't blow anybody out, but at the same time we don't get blown out much. We're in most of the games.
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We humans have millions of years of evolutionary baggage that makes us regard competition in a deadly light.
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Ghostery lets you spy on the spies in your computer. For each web page you visit, this extension uncloaks some - but not all - of the invisible tracking software that is working behind the scenes.
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The least sexy city is Los Angeles. And it poses as the most sexy. As you grow up, L.A. is being sold to you as home of the bikini-clad party girls. And then you get there, and it's full of very goal-oriented, yoga-obsessed careerists.
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Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine.
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I hardly ever watch the news... I love reading newspapers, but I know they're dying out.
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When you get to play pretend for a living and do it with really talented people, it's really fun to go to the office!
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I'm a go-hard type. It's in my DNA. I physically prepare my body as if I'm a trained athlete. After the shows, I sit in an ice tub and do a hot dip, cold dip, and sometimes I sit in a hyperbaric chamber to rejuvenate my energy.
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Horrea formicae tendunt ad inania numquam:nullus ad amissas ibit amicus opes.
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The silky hush of intimate things, fragrant with my fragrance, steal softly down, so loth to rob me of my last dear concealment.
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I once got engaged to his daughter Honoria, a ghastly dynamic exhibit who read Nietzsche and had a laugh like waves breaking on a stern and rockbound coast.
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Your mind is all you truly have.
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Direct thy attention to what is said. Let thy understanding enter into the things that are doing and the things which do them.
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As an American writer, the literary tradition that I draw on the most is the Anglo-American one, and when you are writing in this tradition, the Orientalizing Western gaze is something you have to constantly push against as well as compromise with.
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Blanche talks about aging, and why should she be considered poor, because physical beauty is transitory and fading and she has such richness of the soul. I think that speech is so beautiful, and so telling and so true.
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I guess music is very global.
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It was men who stopped slavery. It was men who ran up the stairs in the Twin Towers to rescue people. It was men who gave up their seats on the lifeboats of the Titanic. Men are made to take risks and live passionately on behalf of others.
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I'm a really big fan of meeting the fans. It's great to get feedback.
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Working against a restriction - for me - often produces greater things than getting rid of all boundaries.
