J. Allen Hynek Quotes
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I went through a lot in middle school, and you always try so many different looks and try to be so many different people. I finally realized I'm awkward, I'm lanky, and I'm going to embrace it - make fun of myself and just laugh.
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I think in this, definitely, because you are feeling how it felt to live in a completely different time. The mannerisms and the way that people behaved was quite different.
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My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.
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Each of our 900 shows so far was different - maybe that's what makes the fans come back to our gigs time and again. And that they're always part of the show. Phish concerts are a communal experience.
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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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My life has been devoted to the upliftment of the Filipino by reestablishing his identity and dignity.
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When I was 13, I started working in a nightclub with Ray Charles. That's the greatest school in the world, the school of the streets. Ray taught me how to read in Braille. He was only two years older than me, but it was like he was 100 years older.
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When I joined Small Faces, we occasionally would bump into The Who. And Keith Moon and I became firm pals.
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Some people remaster their records six, seven times, remix it three, four times, spend a million hours, then they always go back and hear a demo of it and they'll say, 'Aw that sounds so much better than the final mix.'
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'Marco Polo' had some negative reactions in the press. Viewers have loved it, and the volume of viewing has been phenomenal.
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I see no conflict whatsoever between Christianity and good business practices. People say you can't mix business with religion. I say there's no other way.
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If you're doing a prison show, HBO is the absolute best place in the world to be doing that because you're not going to have to do all that, you know, 'Prison Break' stuff where you can't really behave and speak like people do in a maximum-security prison.
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A man is as alive as he can communicate.
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Everyone knows that there are more people watching any given show than is being registered by the Nielsen system.
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When I was 14 years old, I was talking about much more mature things because of the writers that I had at the time. My first album was tied into what the culture was at that moment, which was Jodeci, Al B. Sure, Puff, The Hitmen. I reaped the benefits of being part of Bad Boy's movement. That was my introduction.
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When I hear people debate the ROI of social media? It makes me remember why so many business fail. Most businesses are not playing the marathon. They're playing the sprint. They're not worried about lifetime value and retention. They're worried about short-term goals.
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Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
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I don't read music. Not even essentially. Not even nonessentially.
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I want to show people they don't have to be scared of being different.
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Everything you can touch and depend on in our society goes back to science.
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People want someone focused on getting the job done, not political talking points but rather solving problems.
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In poetry, I have, since very young, loved poetry in translation. The Chinese, the French, the Russians, Italians, Indians and early Celts: the formality of the translator's voice, their measured breath and anxiety moves me as it lingers over the original.
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In the midst of fighting there is no place for public debate.
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Science is not always what scientists do.
