John Baizley (John Dyer Baizley) Quotes
I tend to over extend myself without really thinking throughthe realities of completing so many projects in a year, which generally means I'm going to be a little bit behind. I suppose that's the nature of the beast.
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When you like something and you're pretty good at it and you can make a living doing it, you don't ask why. You just count your blessings and go with it.
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Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.
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What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre.
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It's insane to me to ask anybody to be what they're not. Know what you know the best, love the most. That's always going to be the answer to the thing that you have the best shot at winning at.
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Whenever I hear that I'm on the brink of stardom, I feel like I want to run into a cave.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?
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I enjoy making films, but my heart is in the stage. Every night you have to be on. There's no second take.
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My approach is to be part of a band that makes music, not hit songs.
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I've got two small kids. I want to make sure they grow up to be good people. Do they treat people well? Are they kind?
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My deceased grandmother on my mom's side was a real fairy godmother, who lived to be 102 and who I always feel is looking after me.
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Going to Europe as a budding cook opened my eyes to food in a different way. When I got to Italy, the first thing I did was put my little basil plants in the ground and watch them turn into big, healthy bushes.
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Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.
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A lot of people meet me and they're like, 'Why aren't you crazy?'
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I don't carry the burden of the past or the madness of the future. I live in the present.
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He that offereth sacrifice of the goods of the poor is as one that sacrificeth the son in the presence of his father.
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I like David Lynch; I like Stanley Kubrick. I'm a big fan of Kubrick.
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I have to have coffee in the morning.
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One of the things that's pretty unique about nu shu, when you look especially at these old letters and stories that have been saved, is that there are certain lines that are very standard that are used again and again. It's almost like a formula in a sense, so that these certain lines come up again and again.
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Google will make us more informed. The smartest person in the world could well be behind a plow in China or India. Providing universal access to information will allow such people to realize their full potential, providing benefits to the entire world.
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Hold on to your salah, because if you lose that, you will lose everything else.
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When times are tough and people are frustrated and angry and hurting and uncertain, the politics of constant conflict may be good. But what is good politics does not necessarily work in the real world. What works in the real world is cooperation.
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I'm a world expert on superhero comics. I think maybe only Michael Chabon knows more than me.
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I tend to over extend myself without really thinking throughthe realities of completing so many projects in a year, which generally means I'm going to be a little bit behind. I suppose that's the nature of the beast.
