Ray Manzarek Quotes
Doors music is not a simple kind of music. It's like the Bauhaus. It's clean and pure. Morrison's lyrics are psychologically deep. So for people to understand Doors music is certainly a testament to their intellects.
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When U.S.-based editors and columnists parachute into a news storm, it is often the stringers who keep us out of trouble, helping us glimpse the complexity behind the headlines.
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Think and grow rich.
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Greetings and death to our enemies.
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Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
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Of course, there can be serious injustices within free societies.
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When I was young, about 18 or 19, I read all the Dostoyevsky novels, which made me want to go to St. Petersburg. So I went, and I was so inspired.
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I had several near death experiences or very, you know, close calls, if you may, in Iraq. You know, there was an incident where I was nearly kidnapped.
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It is now proved beyond doubt that smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.
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I had my group of friends, you know, like my real group of friends, and then I had, like, party friends.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.
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I've been very lucky.
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I don't remember my first two marriages... the details are very sketchy.
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No one can look bad when you've been lit for six hours.
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I'm working on bringing the instant film camera back as part of the future.
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I was pursuing the arts with theater in school, and I was doing after-school activities, but not in any real movement towards a professional career.
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My judges preach against free love openly, practice it secretly.
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Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
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I don't think you should ever damage other people for your art.
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The theme of Cosmology, which is the basis of all religions, is the story of the dynamic effort of the World passing into everlasting unity, and of the static majesty of God's vision, accomplishing its purpose of completion by absorption of the World's multiplicity of effort.
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I think once somebody is loved, they are somewhere in your heart still loved.
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One doesn't want to feel too contented; you have to feel challenged by the music.
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I think heavy metal is therapeutic - it's music that blows the tension away. I think that's why people who have had really bad childhoods are attracted to heavy metal. It allows people to release aggression and tension in a nonviolent way. Also, heavy metal seems to attract all sorts of scruffy, lost animals, strays no one wants.
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Doors music is not a simple kind of music. It's like the Bauhaus. It's clean and pure. Morrison's lyrics are psychologically deep. So for people to understand Doors music is certainly a testament to their intellects.
