Allan Holdsworth Quotes
I don't think about what other people expect or anything. I mean, I sit and worrying so much about what I'M thinking, I'd go NUTS if I sat around worrying about other people.
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There's a long history of private-company cooperation with the NSA that dates back to at least the 1970s.
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I want audiences to see me in different avatars.
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Our best thoughts come from others.
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Yes, I would agree that America, just like Spain was in the 17th Century, is the main empire of the world and they are the ones who, on the surface, are the most pushy: pushing their language, pushing their culture - or what there is of it - pushing by force their system on others.
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You can't say what the outcome of a competition is going to be, so now I am ready to accept any result that comes my way, if I give my best shot.
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As an author, I had spent years writing my stories on my own in a quiet room. My ideas traveled from my brain to my fingers, executed exactly as I saw fit, never veering from my own intent. TV simply doesn't work that way.
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Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.
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The less you do to beautiful food, the better it's going to taste. You don't need to mess with it all the time.
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'Mixtape' sounds retro! I used to make lots of mixed tapes. It was one of those '90s things - every girl gave them to her best friend. I remember exchanging a few with a boy on a bus when I was 14. I thought he hated me, but in hindsight, maybe he was in love with me, because he gave me the best music.
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My passion was reading newspapers - and I became curious, in particular, about Islam and the Arab world.
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The problems we face aren't Democratic problems or Republican problems. These are Maryland's problems.
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Markets as well as mobs respond to human emotions; markets as well as mobs can be inflamed to their own destruction.
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What opera isn't violent? Two things happen, violence and love. And other than that, name something else. You can't.
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Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.
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This is faith, receiving the truth of Christ; first knowing it to be true, and then acting upon that belief.
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I am convinced that living in an enclave shapes the personality, and living alone shapes the personality too.
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I've worked with Lil Wayne and Wiz, but I'd like to work with Snoop next. I love 'Paid tha Cost to Be da Boss' and 'Doggystyle' and pretty much anything he puts out. And Ice Cube - like, all the legends.
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People got insights into what was bothering them, but they hardly did a damn thing to change.
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A democracy is no more than an aristocracy of orators. The people are so readily moved by demagogues that control must be exercised by the government over speech and press.
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We're going to have every pump, every sandbag out there. The only question is where do we put them.
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Music has always been transnational; people pick up whatever interests them, and certainly a lot of classical music has absorbed influences from all over the world.
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I don't think about what other people expect or anything. I mean, I sit and worrying so much about what I'M thinking, I'd go NUTS if I sat around worrying about other people.
