Jon Gordon Langseth Jr. (Jonny Lang) Quotes
I've probably gone a month or two without playing guitar, just because I've gotten so burnt on it touring all year or whatever.
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Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
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There is still a funny notion that women should not write violent fiction.
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The one great exception to the apathy on reunification is, naturally enough, Berlin. Encircled by the hostile Soviet Zone for ten years, at times blockaded and constantly at the Russians' mercy, Berliners are committed to this one goal with a unique urgency.
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I used to have the very standard worldview. I can easily identify with people who see computers getting faster and smarter, and technology getting more and more beneficial, without seeing the other side.
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The one thing I do have is good ears. I don't mean perfect pitch, but ears for picking things up. I developed my ear through piano theory, but I never had a guitar lesson in my life, except from Eric Clapton off of records.
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I think a woman looks best in a sari.
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To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
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In the heat of the Russian summer a sleeping car is the most horrible instrument of martyrdom imaginable.
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Acting is the ability to dream on cue.
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With the rights now in our loving hands, I'm beyond excited to bring 'The Green Hornet' into the 21st century in a meaningful and relevant way: modernizing it and making it accessible to a whole new generation. My intention is to bring a gravitas to 'The Green Hornet' that wipes away the camp and kitsch of the previous iteration.
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Many schools desperately need caring professionals like guidance counselors and social workers to ensure students' emotional, social and educational needs are met. But proposals to arm teachers are irresponsible and dangerous. The role of educators is to teach and nurture our children, not to be armed guards.
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Today the Western powers and media want to domesticate us like sheep, to keep us tame and domesticated.
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Yes, I'm a 'Twi-hard.' I became obsessed. Absolutely obsessed. I didn't watch television, I didn't go to the cinema. My friends would ring and say: 'What are you doing?' And I would say: 'I've just got to finish this chapter.'
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Nobody ever said I'm a simple personality.
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When a government for the people becomes a government in spite of the people, then who are we really serving?
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If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers.
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Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.
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To think of shadows is a serious thing.
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I certainly don't think of myself as an action hero.
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I’m not that type of artist, I don’t need writers. I don’t need the whole fluff thing. I need to just be real with my fans. I’m not the type of artist you can put together and put into a box. I just fit better on my own.
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Anytime you get an idea, you need people to help you put it together. That is the beginning of an institution. When you create an institution, levels of authority and boundaries need to be established. If everybody owns it, nobody owns it. If everybody is responsible for it, nobody will be responsible.
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Taking Batman globally, not everything is going to have the same flavor as Gotham City; some places are going to be a lot more bright and airy. I would say that his stories are more broad, I guess I would put it that way.
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The terms good and bad indicate no positive quality in things regarded in themselves, but are merely modes of thinking or notions, which we form from the comparison of things one with another. Thus one and the same thing can be at the same time good, bad, and indifferent. For instance, music is good for him that is melancholy, bad for him that mourns; for him that is deaf; it is neither good nor bad.
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I've probably gone a month or two without playing guitar, just because I've gotten so burnt on it touring all year or whatever.
