Jonathan Cain Quotes
We're a gumbo of American music, and aren't ashamed to play pop or soul or rock because we all grew up on radio.
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I was perhaps about 10 years old when a local farmer rang us up to say he had found a young badger and would we take it in. So we did; it was a female called Bessy and she lived in the boiler room. She was extremely intelligent, had a very low opinion of cats but loved the dogs. She was pretty well trained; she went in the car.
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A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
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With Lille, we could have gone to the South of France, and people wouldn't have recognised us. But at Chelsea, the players are at another level. Everything has changed – the language, the country – but it is up to me to adapt.
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I buried Joel on our 48th anniversary. I had been with her since I was 16.
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Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
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In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.
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To do a really good interview, you have to be truly interested in the person.
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The voters of Colorado deserve honest, straight-talking elected officials.
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I don't think I can play Mr. Bachchan.
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Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.
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I am suspicious of writers who go looking for issues to address. Writers are neither preachers nor journalists. Journalists know much more than most writers about what's going on in the world. And if you want to change things, you do journalism.
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It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.
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I run a solid 4-6 miles at a time, and over the last year two years I've gotten really into SoulCycle. It's sort of an evolved form of spinning.
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Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people.
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Let someone else be the world's greatest actress. I'll be the world's greatest baseball fan.
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Some of the most amazing people I've met in life are cops.
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I definitely like performing to a crowd that's there to see a female hero.
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I feel that we, as Indians, have a knack for loving a stereotypical, sobbing, sympathy-seeking personality. I feel that we need to promote quirky, cool and youthful talent. We have to stop propagating the sob-story angle of celebs, where they try to be larger-than-life. That is very outdated. It is so boring that it puts you to sleep.
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War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.
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I can't sit down long enough to absorb any kind of learning.
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My job in this life is to give people spiritual ecstasy through music. In my concerts people cry, laugh, dance. If they climaxed spiritually, I did my job. I did it decently and honestly.
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The more you push the budgets up, the more you make records cost $20, the more you make records last 4 and 5 minutes on the radio.
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So it's a mistake for someone to think that they bailed New York out. They did assist us, for which we are grateful, but it's a mistake to say we bailed New York out by giving them a grant of money to help those poor people who throw it away on welfare.
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We're a gumbo of American music, and aren't ashamed to play pop or soul or rock because we all grew up on radio.
