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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I have used Lenovo since I wrote my first novel. My old laptop broke, so I bought a new one, but still a Lenovo. It is one of my most essential devices.
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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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You know how sometimes you lie in bed at night and think, “What if the law of gravity just wears out and lets go and I drift into space?” Does that ever make you anxious?
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There's always this joke that I say in Israel: people don't really have discussions; they just try to convince the other people that they are wrong or they are right - they just try to impose their opinion on the others. Sometimes I think it's easier to avoid talking about things and just make music.
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I don't read reviews any more, but I'm told by my publisher who gives me an account of what people have been writing and it's been a very split kind of response.
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Now everything is available at the push of a button, and that thrill of the search is gone. With vinyl albums and special edition releases, I feel like that's coming back.
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History is a science, no more and no less.
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Working against a restriction - for me - often produces greater things than getting rid of all boundaries.
