Dan Fogelberg Quotes
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Those are my favorite kind of parts to do, just being a goofball and seeing how far you can go with something until you're just way out of line.
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I think that it's important for every single person, no matter what they do in life, to participate in the well-being of humanity and the planet. Don't let a year go by knowing you didn't make an effort to do something - no matter how small - outside your own problems and drama.
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My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never.
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Governments and nations should sit together and resolve issues. Reforms must be reached through understanding. But others should not interfere.
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I always enjoyed myself a lot in pre-school.
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Movies I liked growing up were like Francis Ford Coppolla movies and Scorsese movies.
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Layering in different patterns will keep things from appearing too studied.
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I'll never get out of politics. I have friends in public office. I have things that I want to do. You can't go back in life. I won't go back to the existence I had before of running a political consulting firm and signing up clients and advising campaigns in exactly that way.
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Newark might be one of few the places where the politics is tougher than even Brooklyn.
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When I was a kid and putting out my first records, there was a lot made out of the fact that the '50s/'60s generation was so dominant.
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I believe that life is a journey towards God, and that no one has the right to insist that you go a certain road.
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I'm from New York. My grandparents were settlers of Long Island City. When they came here, there was no bridge, and they had to hire a boat across the river. They had a farm, and my grandmother had to go once a week to Manhattan to buy provisions - very primitive.
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This is my trademark: I rip my T-shirt. I'm into the whole showing-a-bit-of-chest-hair thing.
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There is a fundamental notion at the core of American identity that, in this country, any little boy or girl can grow up to be president.
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But, look, Washington is a town that creates myths for its own existence and its own amusement, and I was a subject of myth, sort of like Grendel in Beowulf - you know, not seen very often but often talked about.
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I'm a historian in my own mind.
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A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!
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I wanted to be a child actor so bad that every day I'd beg my parents if I could audition, but my mom said, 'Not until you can drive yourself to auditions.'
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A word of truth can mobilise two peoples looking for the road to reconciliation.
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I think about how I think I know a person then 'poof!' I discover I only knew a cartoon version. Suddenly there's this fleshy, demanding, noisy creature in front of me, unknowable and just as lost as I am, and equally unable to remember that every soul in the world is hurting, not just themselves.
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If I go to Singapore, I have friends there. If they came to Zambia, they'd feel the same way. I've made connections, and I have friends in many, many countries.
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Your ability to shape your future depends on how well you communicate where you want to be when you get there. When ideas are communicated effectively, people follow and change.
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Today people are a hundred times more interested in the personality of the person they are with than the clothes he wears.
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It seems like bluegrass people have more great stories to tell than other musicians.
