Alan McGlashan Quotes
Ruefully admitting we can neither remain children nor all become artists still less saints and mystics, we turn back, regretfully, but massively, to the time-ridden world.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window.
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A lot of labels are hiring a lot more accountants than people that know music.
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Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.
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Youth doesn't need friends - it only needs crowds.
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One of my earliest memories is of being about three and a half, climbing through the legs of a man who I didn't know was the famous actor, Patrick Magee.
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I have a deep fascination with human nature, with all its virtues and all its defects.
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Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.
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Our focused customers are small business and young people. We did a great job in China. How can we help those young people in India, in Pakistan, in Africa. If they can use in the same ways.
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Originally, I was against gay marriage because I was opposed to all marriage, being an old-fashioned gay bohemian. The straight people I knew in the sixties were very much opposed to it. I was, too, and it was never a possibility for gays, but when I saw how opposed the Religious Right was to it, I thought it a fight worth fighting.
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We're both very very lazy, and having someone else do half the work is very convenient.
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I love to perform live.
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I consider myself more a European director who is from Iceland than an Icelandic director.
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It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.
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Be good at something. It makes you valuable.
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It does not matter how frequently something succeeds if failure is too costly to bear.
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When I said, 'I feel like everything I tried to do is there', it is less because of what I did than it is a case of Michael keeping his word. Sometimes he'd launch into a discourse, a convoluted discourse about something or other, and I had no idea what he was saying. I'd tease him about it, 'What on earth are you talking about?'
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Big Data is neither color-blind nor gender-blind. We can see how it is used in marketing to segment people.
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I can't change you and you can't change me, but together we can work to change the world.
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I was alone. I was made of stone. You took me home. We’ve built a world, a world for us. We flew like birds, a new beginning.
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There are always going to be questions - I know that. I'll let my playing answer my questions.
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Each colored voter of the state should say in scripture phrase, 'may my hand forget its cunning and my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth' if ever I raise my voice or give my vote to the nominee of the Democratic Party.
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Ruefully admitting we can neither remain children nor all become artists still less saints and mystics, we turn back, regretfully, but massively, to the time-ridden world.
