Sean Lennon Quotes
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I've never set out consciously to write American music. I don't know what that would be unless the obvious Appalachian folk references.
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Tell me how you want to die, and I'll tell you who you are.
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Class Day is a terrible name for a day when you don't have to go to any class.
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The only bridge I've ever burned along this legacy I dance is the one that linked the cities of prosperity and chance.
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Don't be discouraged, but know that suffering produces perseverance, perseverance brings character, and character brings hope, and this is a hope which will not disappoint us.
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Hopefully, he can get out of here and he can give a little guidance to the guy taking his place in the backfield.
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The use of [the atomic bombs] at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. The Japanese were already defeated and ready to surrender because of the effective sea blockade and the successful bombing with conventional weapons... The lethal possibilities of atomic warfare in the future are frightening. My own feeling was that in being the first to use it, we had adopted an ethical standard common to the barbarians of the Dark Ages. I was not taught to make war in that fashion, and wars cannot be won by destroying women and children.
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The long night of human history is drawing at last to its conclusion.
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I always direct the same film. I cannot distinguish one from the other.
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Sometimes I still can't believe my luck.
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The Holy Spirit has his own personality .He therefore moves in at will when we least expect it, and sometimes when we are least deserving of it.
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Who's to say what would have happened if I had trusted my instincts and moved to New York like I thought I would.
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They're a very unique offense; we knew that. They came out, especially in the first two series, in some things we didn't prepare for. They came out with two backs, which wasn't a high priority for them a year ago.
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I eagerly awaited visitors, but the anticipation and the extra energy of greetings caused a numbing exhaustion. As the first stories unfolded, my spirit held on to the conversation as best it could—I so wanted these connections to the outside world—but my body sank beneath waves of weakness. Still, my friends were golden threads randomly appearing in the monotonous fabric of my days. Each visit was a window that opened momentarily into the life I had once known, always falling shut before I could make my way back through. The visits were like dreams from which I awoke once more alone.
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[william] Burroughs, incidentally, took up the slogan that we are "Here to go", which contradicts the tendency in Eastern mysticism to advocate staying where you are because there's nowhere to go anyway. I feel conflicted on this one.
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I have a tendency to be lucky and make the right choices based on limited information.
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My tendency is to be very experimental.