Bion of Smyrna Quotes
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We've been allowed to operate unmolested on the fringes of the music scene, really. That's where we enjoy it most.
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I try to shave at night so my skin has a chance to settle by the early morning call-time.
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In the past, people worked together only when some great disaster threatened.
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I'm slammed with an identity that can no longer say a word; mute with responsibility.
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Building a baseball team is like building a house. You look for the best architects, the best builders - and then you let them do their jobs.
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I'm always flattered when someone thinks of me as a potential commissioner of baseball.
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I was never for Richard Nixon until Watergate.
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Living in the U.K., there is no way to know whether anyone in India likes my music, but I was surprised to see people singing along while I performed in Pune.
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Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion.
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I don't have anything against my mom, but my family has no emotional connection to each other.
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The threats to privacy in America – from our own government – seem to never end. Does Congress really think they can just stick an ‘oh-by-the-way’ provision in an obscure piece of legislation directing the FAA to clear the way for 30,000 drones to fly over our neighborhoods, and have no one notice?
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Love can't be pinned down by a definition, and it certainly can't be proved, anymore than anything else important in life can be proved.
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To see ourselves as others see us is a most salutary gift. Hardly less important is the capacity to see others as they see themselves.
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Dictionary, n. A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. This dictionary, however, is a most useful work.
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Eat it, lick it, snort it, fuck it!
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I want to be a part of this organization, and I know the fans are a little harsh sometimes, but that's how it is here in New York, and I'm ready for it.
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When I started performing, there was no Internet; I didn't really have anything to copy. I kind of had to just make up what I thought burlesque was, based on photographs of Sally Rand or whatever.
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Music is an art form too. Sometimes other forms of art can be inspiring to the musician.
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I know the fans are very personable with my mom and things like that. They make little collages and pictures. They make edits of me and my mom together.
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For Arizonans, there's a particular connection because it was the U.S.S. Arizona and so on December 7, we have a lot of commemorations on the day of the attack, and it's a big part of Arizona life.
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I think I have character, and that is what people like in me.
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Bad writers have influences. Good writers steal.
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Arrogance is the obstruction of wisdom.
