Agathon Quotes
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People said, 'How could you walk away from music?' But being a dad - there's nothing that can touch that.
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I became fascinated by marionettes, which I first saw in Venice. They were so haunted and so alive. You walked by them, and you could feel their presence, with their beady eyes just fixed on you.
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Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
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There was a time I desperately needed for the world to know that I was no category guy. My whole goal in life was to reach that certain success where people will say, 'Hey, that guy can do anything. He's the Evel Knievel of music. He's jumping over 15 buses!'
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I taught myself how to play the guitar. I never studied music.
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Around the world, climate change is an existential threat - but if we harness the opportunities inherent in addressing climate change, we can reap enormous economic benefits.
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I feel that, at this point in my career, I don't want to do another television show. I don't want to do a film.
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Spiritual practice should not be confused with grim duty. It is the laughter of the Dalai Lama and the wonder born with every child.
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Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders. All claims deserve consideration but some claims are more important than others.
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You can spend your money on art works and sit down and look at them. Or you can use your money to help people.
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I'm very pro-American - my entire family escaped poverty in Italy because they rightly believed in the American dream.
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Movies are a commercial medium. We don't make movies to impress our friends and critics. It's an expensive medium. We have to gain money from it.
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If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it.
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In India, you see the way they embrace color in the culture - it's very celebratory of the existence of color. There's no rule of what color belongs together or doesn't belong together. They're not precious about it. It's very full-on.
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Most music careers slowly but surely go down.
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I have been portrayed by actors in three television documentaries, two plays, one musical and a film. It's no fun watching yourself being traduced and imitated by an actor.
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I always had a curiosity about Texas. I had a curiosity about small-town life, although, granted, Odessa's not a tiny town.
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As humans, we all want our own island. Of course, the truth is, we're never going to get it.
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Nigeria, with the oil sector, had the reputation of being corrupt and not managing its own public finances well. So what did we try to do? We introduced a fiscal rule that de-linked our budget from the oil price.
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This hypnagogic condition. Attention-faculty diminished so that twilight state obtains; world seen merely in symbolic, archetypal aspect, totally confused with unconscious material.
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The idea of massive amounts of fame-having my face on Walgreens end-caps and pizza boxes-I don't fantasize about that. I'm happy with just being a songwriter. I'd rather have smaller numbers [of fans] that are really into what I'm doing than a massive amount of people that don't really know what I'm about.
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I've made more than 50 records with a wide range of music. I've often veered to check something out.
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It kind of went from coming back into my apartment in New York and finding boxes of pictures of myself with Lucifer written all over them, and a guy who wanted to cut me up and eat me, to an Italian just recently who dreamt that I wanted to marry him.
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This only is denied even to God: the power to undo the past.
