Stephen Stills Quotes
After about a year or so, I was in L.A.; I'd decided to try to get a band together out there
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I would not be gotten into a schoolhouse until I was eight years old. Nor did I accomplish much after I started. I doubt if I had gone to school six months in all when my father died. I was fourteen at the time.
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The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.
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Growing up, I had a very happy childhood, with two parents who are still very much together.
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You don't drown by falling into water. You only drown if you stay there.
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This is a world in which reasons are made up because reality is too painful.
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Venezuela, given its extraordinary educational, cultural, and social developments, and its vast energy and natural resources, is called on to become a revolutionary model for the world.
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I imagine that my characters have become much more complicated than when I first began, which would be normal.
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I've been grateful that 'Time's' reach and mandate is so broad; anything you're interested in, you can usually write about.
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I love Lady Gaga and I love Katy Perry and R&B and rap music... I love big, American pop music.
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I don't back down. I don't cave when the pressure gets too great from these partisan political ideological forces.
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I've always wanted to stay involved with young people. I never bought into the idea that entertainers owe nothing to their audience except a good performance.
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'Frida' was a joy; this was delicious, I couldn't wait every day to get to the set, although I was exhausted, and have my leg get cut off or lose the baby or be in her shoes and get to play my hero and be able to go places emotionally. You know, we live for parts like this. This is a dream for an actor.
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There's going to be a picture of 'Mama' on my obit.
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I would describe my dancing talents as incredibly deep.
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I own a home in Kyoto, Japan actually on the temple on grounds in Nanzenji that is going to become a Japanese art museum.
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I was walking around bored one day, and I started filming stuff with my cellphone. There are all these shows where people are trying to do these outrageous stunts, and I thought it would be funny to do all these stunts that aren't outrageous but then act like they are.
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Before that I wanted to be a magazine illustrator - I probably would have painted Gothic scenes.
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When I'm 80 years old, I don't know what I want to be remembered for.
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When you have a lot of confidence and you feel like nobody can beat you, it's game over for everyone else.
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I saw Mercury Prize-winners Alt-J for the first time recently, touring their debut album 'An Awesome Wave,' and I'm still riding the high: they're the most musically dynamic and exciting band to have poured tune into my lug holes live since Bellowhead.
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To receive more, we must give out what we receive. . . . For it is by giving that we set in operation the unfailing law of measure for measure. With no thought of receiving, it is impossible to avoid receiving, for the abundance you have given is returned to you in fulfillment of the law.
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Everyone has a dormant wrestling character in them that is pretty easy to tap into.
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I am quite loud and bolshie. I'm a big personality. I walk into a room, big and tall and loud.
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After about a year or so, I was in L.A.; I'd decided to try to get a band together out there
