Jon Gordon Langseth Jr. (Jonny Lang) Quotes
Apparently, there's this whole set of disgruntled people but obviously it's not my intention to offend anyone by changing the style of music that I've done.
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I really like this trend of songwriting that is honest and intelligent and serious and longing.
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There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't been allowed to conceive before.
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Every little action creates an effect: We are all interconnected.
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
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When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls' athletics.
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I grew up watching 'Raging Bull.'
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At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.
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Whatever its flaws, the United Nations is still the only institution that brings together all the countries of the world. And it is the best forum for the United States to spur countries to act - and to hold them accountable when they don't.
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We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.
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I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny, but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity.
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My reasons for declaring a sexual preference had to do less with the pursuit of personal freedom than with the lust for pure shock value.
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If you're a novelist, as I am in real life, you're usually so desperate for any kind of feedback.
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I think it's much harder to have a long dialogue scene than an action scene. An action scene is long, but it's not really hard. It's kind of boring, really. It looks good at the end, but to shoot it, it's not the most exciting thing.
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I'll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady.
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If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death, human life cannot be complete.
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I think Barack Obama was born into a home not just to a white woman and white grandparents, but a white woman and white grandparents who shockingly told him it was okay that he was black and that he should not be ashamed of it and that he should, in fact, be proud of it.
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When I was a kid, I wanted to be a baseball player.
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From the moment I walked into the White House, it was as if I had no privacy at all.
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We acquire the strength we have overcome.
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'Cars' is a really personal story for me because, first of all, I grew up in Los Angeles - the car crazy capital.
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We don't necessarily need so many artists. I recommend that many of the people who think they want to be artists should go into the American Friends Service Committee, or do government outreach to communities that don't have water, or that need seeds or ecological assistance. It would create a system in which people with engaged sensibilities and potential insight assist instead of imposing. I think it could leap right out of the art world into wonderful community action.
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DNA was my only gold rush. I regarded DNA as worth a gold rush.
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Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster and it operated on a license which is not the same as a government grant.
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Apparently, there's this whole set of disgruntled people but obviously it's not my intention to offend anyone by changing the style of music that I've done.
