Bill McLaren Quotes
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As I got older I became a kind of sub cultural junkie, foraging around in music, street fashion and eventually art, politics and the freakier reaches of the Internet, hunting the next discovery, the next seam of underground gold.
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Any job very well done that has been carried out by a person who is fully dedicated is always a source of inspiration.
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When I was in the country and I was trying to play, nobody seemed to pay too much attention to me. People used to say, 'That's just that ole blues singer.'
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Be kind and considerate with your criticism... It's just as hard to write a bad book as it is to write a good book.
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When I feel like my body is exhausted, I focus on making my fifth Olympic team so I can push through it.
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Though men may be deep, mentally they are slow.
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It may be that the books that were best liked in your lifetime are not the ones that are best liked 100 years later.
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Never say 'no' to adventures. Always say 'yes', otherwise you'll lead a very dull life.
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Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference.
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The one sound I think of when I think about dreaming is the harp glissando, which is this really atmospheric run up and down the scale that's really dreamy.
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The Bible is worth all the other books which have ever been printed.
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Social Security got passed because John D. Rockefeller was sick of having to take money out of his profits to pay for his workers' pension funds. Why do that, when you can just let the government take money from the workers?
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Just like I am obsessed with the history of fashion, I love reading about the history of makeup.
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But there is much to be said for giving up ... grand ambitions and living the most ordinary life imaginable.
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Co-opted convictions will always betray you.
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There is nothing I can do to ever make up for that kick, ... But that happened. I take responsibility for that. In the future there are going to be opportunities, and I look forward to that.
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One thing about a pig, he thinks he's warm if his nose is warm. I saw a bunch of pigs one time that had frozen together in a rosette, each one's nose tucked under the rump of the one in front. We have a lot of pigs in politics.
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One of the exciting things about an entanglement puzzle is there's no end to it. Once you solve how to take it apart, you have to solve how to put it back together.
