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 don't think I would change really anything about rap. Rap don't have no limits to it, and I like it like that.
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The whole period seemed to come alive to her sensitive imagination,--the people of the times, substantial and courageous, walked and talked with her. For the first time she was sensing to-day a romance in her own Midwest, a glamour over the lives of her own people. She wished she could hold to her heart the fleeting sensation until she could get pencil and paper. She wished she could catch it and hold it between the covers of a book.
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The artist's alertness to the coloristic demands of each picture, the ability to respond to the picture's needs, to feed the color until its appetite is satiated; these are the true measures of a colorist's talent.
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I don't think anyone is qualified to answer questions of eternal fate definitively, much less pinpoint it to a given day.
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Suddenly I realized that I wanted everything to be as it was when I was younger. When you're young enough, you don't know that you live in a cheap lousy apartment. A cracked chair is nothing other than a chair. A dandelion growing out of a crack in the sidewalk outside your front door is a garden. You could believe that a song your parent was singing in the evening was the most tragic opera in the world. It never occurs to you when you are very young to need something other than what your parents have to offer you.
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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.
