Ed O'Brien Quotes
We call him Shabba. You know, Shabba Ranks, Mr. Loverman. He likes the ladiez." "When Thom starts singing, you can’t hold back the tears.
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I've listened to female vocalists my whole life. That's what I love. I still listen to guys' vocals and don't get taken aback a lot.
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Relationships, it seems to me, are timeless. What works between two people always works; what doesn't is always troublesome. Over time, people learn - or not - how to negotiate what's difficult, but that doesn't mean the misfit has gone away entirely.
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Life does not owe me a shred.
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It just seems like the most fun thing in the world. I've never met people who have kids who haven't looked me in the eye and been like, 'It's the greatest thing that's ever happened.'
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If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the troubles will come to an end, and the question which now distracts the country will be settled just as surely as all other difficulties of like character which have originated in this government have been adjusted.
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If we are to change America, we must change the United States Congress.
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I almost laughed about the Machiavellian plans of the presidents of the United States.
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When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
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To create a nice relationship with an ex, the love has to change form. I think you just have to put your children first.
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I almost got a psychology degree, I almost got a philosophy degree. I kept changing it so they couldn't make me graduate. I studied anthropology and eastern religion, epistomology, and astronomy... I took every interesting course I could find for nine years.
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I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
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Some artists are working to buy the mansion or whatever the element of fame must bear, but I spend all my money on my show.
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There's no time for boys in my life right now.
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It's beneficial to play against your type; to be chameleon-like.
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We have lost a lot of ground to the extremists in the Middle East.
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It's very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That's my rule.
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From antiquity, Latin died but is still studied in seminaries and elite universities. So did Sanskrit in Asia. iI was replaced by Pali, but even Pali died, too. Linguists say the only ancient language which was resuscitated from the grave was Hebrew of Israel.
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When your protagonist bores you, you're in trouble.
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Jim Crow is old. That's not who I'm mindful of today. The problem is that Jim Crow has sons. The one we've got to battle is James Crow Jr., Esq. He's a little more educated. He's a little slicker. He's a little more polished, but the results are the same.
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I really like accompanying. I like working with vocalists, I've worked with a lot of poets.
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When I first started singing, I didn't know which direction to take - I sang rock & roll and all kinds of things.
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My singing, if you want to call it that is merely another medium of expression. Just an instrument I play. That's how I see my voice.
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From the first time you can look in the paper and you accept that you're the entertainment for some people that night, it becomes so much more enjoyable to play live.
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We call him Shabba. You know, Shabba Ranks, Mr. Loverman. He likes the ladiez." "When Thom starts singing, you can’t hold back the tears.
