John Lombardo Quotes
The music business has changed dramatically in the fifteen years I've been peripherally associated with it.
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I don't know how much the economy has changed since Jonathan Swift's 'A Modest Proposal.'
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I joined the Actors Studio and began to work with Lee Strasberg, and that changed my work.
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One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.
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I started playing trumpet when I was 11 years old. All I wanted to be was a jazz trumpet player when I grew up.
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I was on a well-beaten path of actors - what we all call 'the Law and Order route'. I spent two years of auditioning for everything... and then 'The Wire' came up.
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In the last 1,000 years, the Arabs have translated as many books as Spain translates in just one year.
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It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.
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For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull.
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Years down the line, I became a food stylist.
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When I was nearly twelve years old, my kind mistress sickened and died.
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Over the years, so many exceptions and amendments were made to China's one-child policy that it was hard to pinpoint a moment to pronounce it dead.
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For hundreds of years Iranians have been migrating to many parts of the world. They took Islamic culture to other parts of the world and established it there.
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A novelist who writes nothing for 10 years finds his reputation rising. Because I keep on producing books they say there must be something wrong with this fellow.
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After years of piecemeal reform the current welfare system is complex and unfair.
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Even in my side of the world, I've been in publishing for what, 25 or 26 years, and it's gone from being a gentlemen's club to being a few big players, and it's very corporatised.
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Every era has its own list of ingredients that are considered exotic and then, 15 years later, they're not.
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I became a co-chair of the Congressional Study Group from Germany several years ago with the expressed purpose of helping increase aid to Holocaust survivors.
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We are the representatives of the cosmos; we are an example of what hydrogen atoms can do, given 15 billion years of cosmic evolution.
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The challenge is for bioethicists to position themselves to be on panels, boards and other decision making bodies where oublic policy positions wil be established-where the exploding changes in health care that are now underway will be addressed.
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I've always been a fan of science fiction. My family, we all used to watch 'Star Trek' together, which is kind of a nerdy family activity.
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I'd like to have every gentleman and lady in this room commit themselves to get our government to legalize drugs, so they have to get it through a doctor, not just some gangsters who sell it under the table. Let's legalize drugs like they did in Amsterdam. No one's hiding or sneaking around corners to get it. They go to a doctor to get it.
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The music business has changed dramatically in the fifteen years I've been peripherally associated with it.
