Nancy Wilson Quotes
As a songwriter, simplicity - what not to do, what not to play - can be the hardest thing to achieve.
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The fact is, beneath the hype, Iraqis will soon appreciate American help and idealism far more than French perfidy. It is never wrong to be on the side of freedom - never.
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The team behind 'The Lego Movie' approached me. They wanted to do something extra special for the Academy Award performance of best song nominee 'Everything is Awesome.' They had seen my earlier version of a Lego Oscar statue, and I was happy to take on the challenge.
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I think you just have to accept the fact that no one lives forever, and eventually things are going to come to an end, whether it's a TV show or life.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry.
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Our evolution could have gone in different directions a lot of times. We could have gone extinct at some points. We might not have gotten our big brains, or Neanderthals might have made it while we did not.
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I came back out here from England and I was there for a while and it was beautiful and it is just great to see London going from Spring to Summer and Autumn.
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Exercise, from a public health perspective, is an unmitigated failure. The world's longest-lived people live in environments that nudge them into more movement. They don't use power tools, they do their own yard work, they grow a garden.
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The death of Churchill at 90 was one of those watershed moments in which the obituary rises to a special calling beyond the sharing of remembered times. It gave an older generation a rare opportunity to explain something of itself to its children.
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You can be arrested and not charged. You can be arrested and have no right to counsel.
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There's been no real reason to move to LA. The stuff I've done for America has been done in Europe anyway. We made a decision early on that we'd find our base and not shake the children's world as much as mine.
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When we started out in '64, um, I was playing Number One, which was a woman second in command of a star ship.
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That's pretty much who I am. I like to get riled up. I feel like it brings the best out of me and the other guys.
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No doubt about it. For every player. Thursday nights are very tough for us because it is a short turnaround.
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I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition.
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Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.
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You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker.
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In a democracy, you don't need anyone's permission to form a new political party, publish a politically charged article, or organize a 'tea party.' And in open markets, individuals are free to buy and invest as they see fit.
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The great antidote to anxiety is to come to God in prayer. We are to pray about everything. Nothing is too big for Him to handle, and nothing is too small to escape His attention.
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My main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms, and to keep other people's books out of mine.
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scathing indictment of the climate and leadership to permit sexual harassment to permeate all levels of the Army.
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As a songwriter, simplicity - what not to do, what not to play - can be the hardest thing to achieve.
