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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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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Faith which refuses to face indisputable facts is but little faith. Truth is always gain, however hard it is to accommodate ourselves to it. To linger in any kind of untruth proves to be a departure from the straight way of faith.
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Mad science is my middle name.
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Sometimes movie-making happens like clockwork; other times, like a car accident.
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There are many causes why a people politically ignorant cannot be roused to action. Perfect political ignorance must be accompanied by indifference to the general interests of society, and thus one of the most powerful motives which can act on the human mind is totally destroyed.
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Your love in a cottage is hungry, Your vine is a nest for flies- Your milkmaid shocks the Graces, And simplicity talks of pies! You lie down to your shady slumber And wake with a bug in your ear, And your damsel that walks in the morning Is shod like a mountaineer.
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Working against a restriction - for me - often produces greater things than getting rid of all boundaries.
