Ammon Hennacy Quotes
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I am completely in favour of dialogue and engagement. But it must be a true, open dialogue.
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It was kind of easier for me to do records that didn't take a year or two years of my life to write and to make.
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I'm very proud to be a woman - you're part of a tribe. Automatically, you feel connected to another woman when you meet them. That's really special.
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The best restriction I learned was getting into the habit of doing something, even if I didn't feel like it, instead of running away from it. Sometimes good work needs to be earned, and when you can overcome yourself, the muse notices and celebrates.
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The pace of innovation may slow down or speed up depending on the appetite in the public markets, but the constant progress of technology doesn't really ever stop. There's always opportunities for new ideas and creative people to go build great things. I'm always interested in learning about those kinds of opportunities.
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I've had my run in with trouble. Fortunately, you know, one slap on the hand is usually the last time for me... I learned my lesson.
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To get promoted, company executives need to be able to see you as one of them.
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If you want to put out a million CDs and sell them and get them played on the radio, and even videos, or whatever, if that still exists, that kind of muscle can only come from a label like Columbia.
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Conviction without experience makes for harshness.
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We - we spend a lot of time, scholarly time, thinking about love and sex, but very little about the - the kind of joy that can take over a crowd of people or a group of people, in festivity, in ecstatic ritual of some kind, in celebration.
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I really don't know the secret to it, but I'd like to think my desirability is a combination of my personality, my image, and, most importantly, the kind of films I do.
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My parents were amazing and wonderful, but there was a lot of pressure to do my best and in every way possible.
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Nothing is stranger to man than his own image.
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Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.
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I was surprised by how much I liked 'Hacksaw Ridge' and its depth.
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I never thought of having platinum albums and winning awards. I just wanted to write songs and sing when I started out in the music business.
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Music is something that should speak for itself, straight from the heart. It took me a long time to understand that.
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I live in an apartment building built in 1925, and it hasn't been heavily renovated, so I feel very much connected to that time and what went on in that place.
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I was not sympathetic to the assumption that criminals had radically different motivations from everyone else.
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The side of fairytales I don't like is that they always have happy endings, that there's just good and evil, and things are perfect. But life is a little more complicated, and that's what I try to teach my kids.
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It's a beautiful thing to have time in the world, as a singer and as a musician, to make friends with people of the musical caliber of a Tommy Smith, an Arturo Sandoval, a Richard Galliano, a Till Broenner.
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I wanted to write stories I wanted to read, that I and my friends related to.
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I love my enemies, but am hell on my friends.
