Stone Gossard Quotes
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By the end of high school, I would do shows at the theater at night and then take the train home and go to school the next morning.
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A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.
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Everybody thinks they deserve something.
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I don't regret doing any of my films. All of them have been great learning experiences, and they have contributed to making me what I am today.
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God gave me a very good hand to play over my 88 years. I have no regrets.
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Anytime you interfere with a natural process, you're playing God. God determines what happens naturally. That means when a person's ill, he shouldn't go to a doctor because he's asking for interference with God's will. But of course, patients can't think that way.
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Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.
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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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I've never fabricated or plagiarized anything.
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I hope that the opening of the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial will be a life-altering experience that inspires every American to rededicate themselves to the fulfillment of Dr. King's dream.
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When I was living in Mexico and writing a book called 'Aztec,' I had to make a deliberate effort to ignore a lot of the 'typically Mexican landscape' around me - banana and citrus groves, roses and carnations, burros and toros - because they did not exist in Mexico in the 15th century, the time of my book.
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Israel is not the safest place in the world for Jews. Melbourne in Australia is better. Teaneck, New Jersey, is safer.
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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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Experimental science is fascinating, but I don't want to do it. I want other people to do it, and I'll read about it.
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To me, success is choice and opportunity.
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The things I enjoy most as I watch the movie are the things that came through without even thinking.
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There really are three types of 'religious' movies: the ones that make fun of it, the ones that vilify it and the ones that literally preach to the converted.
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On the rare occasions when I spend a night in Oxford, the keeping of the hours by the clock towers in New College, and Merton, and the great booming of Tom tolling 101 times at 9 pm at Christ Church are inextricably interwoven with memories and regrets and lost joys. The sound almost sends me mad, so intense are the feelings it evokes.
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If someone has copyright over some piece of your stuff, you can sell it without permission from the copyright holder because the copyright holder can only control the 'first-sale.' The Supreme Court has recognized this doctrine since 1908.
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I didn't realize until I was older what a huge music fan my daddy really was, and actually that my grandma played banjo at one time, and I didn't even know that until a year or two ago.
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I remember being in New Orleans after Katrina hearing people calling, 'Help me,' and wanting to slide down in the seat of my car because it felt like I was invading their suffering. But I also know that our being there gave them a voice.
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I moved from Cleveland to L.A. with a girlfriend, we broke up, and I lived out of my car for a year and a half, on the road with nothing on my mind but getting my act good enough to be on 'The Tonight Show.'
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If guys try to make a bigger company for the sake of size, they don't create value in most cases.
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I really enjoy not getting in a car and running errands on bikes.
