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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I imagine that my characters have become much more complicated than when I first began, which would be normal.
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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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Running opened up something beautiful in my life. I try to send the energy all over my body. I love the feeling of it.
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You see that's what I think is such a terrible, terrible betrayal, the trust that people have in government.
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I got my first set of drums when I was around 3. I went from band to marching band to Latin jazz band - it's like riding a bike.
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Manuel is still today a good friend. The others I see rarely, but with Edgar I phone from time to time.
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The novelist, he's not a philosopher, not a technician of spoken language. He's someone who writes, above all, and through the novel asks questions.
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Donors, like voters, increasingly expect candidates to exercise fiscal discipline.
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But I don't want to lose touch with things like eating in Bob's Big Boy.
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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
