Stephen Kozmeniuk (Koz) Quotes
You love doing music, and wouldn't do anything else in the world. But it's a grind.
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I have selective hearing.
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Everybody loves a villain - let's face it.
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I can't bear to see myself even in movies. The feeling is complex. I can't stand the sight of myself.
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There was a time I desperately needed for the world to know that I was no category guy. My whole goal in life was to reach that certain success where people will say, 'Hey, that guy can do anything. He's the Evel Knievel of music. He's jumping over 15 buses!'
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If we were truly in the studio making a record, it would have been more time consuming, and certainly I would have been more involved in the writing process.
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We say that the ICC is targeting Africans, but all of the victims in our cases in Africa are African victims.
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Good science fiction is always based in contemporary truths.
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EmTech Asia brings together some of the brightest minds in technology and computer security.
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I have a superhero complex. If I see anything bad happen, I run towards it, rather idiotically because, after all, what could I do?
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I'm trying to have some longevity in this business. If that means not working for a while and just picking the right job, so be it.
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I'm not a sex symbol. How could I be with these skinny bowlegs?
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'Floating Worlds,' which received a fair amount of attention when it was first published, deserves rediscovery.
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I'm crazy about Dublin. If you went back 3,000 years in my ancestry you wouldn't find a drop of Irish blood in the veins, but I love the place.
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I feel like J. K. Rowling's world is one that is owned by everyone in some ways. People have grown up with it and have such a sense of that universe that there's something kind of wonderful seeing everyone get involved.
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I grew up thinking that I would become a fighter pilot and was fascinated by aircrafts as I had grown up around that. But my father encouraged me to not become an Air Force person, given the varied interests I had, be it books, movies, sports or fighter flying.
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Ishta-devata and Guru are aids - very powerful aids on this path. But an aid to be effective requires your effort also. Your effort is a sine qua non. It is you who should see the sun. Can spectacles and the sun see for you? You yourself have to see your true nature. Not much aid is required for doing it!
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I loved all sports, and New York's a pretty good sports town, and the Giants - I don't know why we chose the Giants over the Jets, but we chose the Giants.
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They don't know they're living in a glass house.
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I have a whole section of a filing cabinet in my office full of ideas. Some are ideas for books or articles I want to write. One is a romantic comedy; one's about my dad's life. I've also got ideas for books on moral relativism as well as democracy and human nature. There's also a really cool concept for a spy novel.
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You've got certain guys that just want to be famous and then you've got the real musicians that just love playing music.
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Faith is more important than terra firma, that it has to be, for the material world is full of trials and tribulations, transgressions against body and soul, against our right to any piece of this country.
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In 1973, the Roe v. Wade decision concluded that women have a constitutionally protected right to safe and legal abortions. That landmark decision wasn't the beginning of women having abortions; it was the end of women dying from abortions.
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Once you're imagining being the main character, and you're having the conversations and actually being there, the magic in fiction writing takes over.
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You love doing music, and wouldn't do anything else in the world. But it's a grind.
