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 go year to year and you can only control what you can control.
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Artists need to express.
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One of the things that happens in the business is that success is a very strange thing in that if you are involved in something very successful the next person wants you to repeat it.
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Though most people love to look at the games of the great attacking masters, some of the most successful players in history have been the quiet positional players. They slowly grind you down by taking away your space, tying up your pieces, and leaving you with virtually nothing to do!
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Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
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Working against a restriction - for me - often produces greater things than getting rid of all boundaries.
