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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It's those damn critics again.
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Any people attempting to govern themselves by laws of their own making, and by officers of their own appointment, are in direct rebellion against the kingdom of God.
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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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One of the secrets of a successful life is to be able to hold all of our energies upon one point, to focus all of the scattered rays of the mind upon one place or thing.
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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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As soon as I started to realize that I could make a living playing professional soccer, I went to that place where I could torture myself because I knew it would make me better for the championship game.
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It is a natural impossibility for any man to make a binding contract, by which he shall surrender to others a single one of what are commonly called his 'natural, inherent, inalienable rights.'
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I looked about me once again, and suddenly the dancing horses without number changed into animals of every kind and into all the fowls that are, and these fled back to the four quarters of the world from whence the horses came, and vanished.
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At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.
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What's the best angle to cut someone's throat? Well, usually from behind. That's usually how it works.
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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.
