Steve Howe (Stephen James Howe) Quotes
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This is something I've wanted to do my whole life is play baseball, and I think just the opportunity to put on a big-league uniform every day is just... you know, people dream of it, but not everybody gets to do it. I'm thankful every day I get to do it.
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A lifetime of low calories has come naturally to the longest-lived people in the world... in the Japanese archipelago of Okinawa.
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Lyrically, I personally lean towards venting.
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In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.
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It's very hard to transgress; we have the furniture of transgression without the imagery and iconography to actually do it.
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I think every country has to recognize its competitive advantage and liberate its strengths to be a partner in global trade, and that's the only way you can survive and succeed.
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Actually, I wanted to become a journalist, but no matter who I imagined myself to be in the future, somehow I was sure: I would leave my hometown. I felt it was my destiny.
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My parents were just really weird and protective about the music I listened to. Whenever I wanted to buy an album, they would have to buy it first and listen to it and let me know if I could have it.
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Facts from paper are not the same as facts from people. The reliability of the people giving you the facts is as important as the facts themselves.
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That's the best thing that classic can do, is it can return to us from our own past to give us lessons about the future, and it can give us a sense of both who we were and who we could become.
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It's possible to train great people, but a person with great training who doesn't have certain characteristics is only going to go so far.
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My job is to look out on that world that I write about and be as honest as I possibly can about that world. If that's optimistic and uplifting, OK. If it's not, OK.
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To say I'm the easiest person to live with would be a lie.
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I think I am smart unless I am really, really in love, and then I am ridiculously stupid.
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Ever since I was a kid, whatever situation I was presented with, I always made the most of it.
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I try to take people one at a time, with all the contradictions and compromises that most of us live with.
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Show me where Stalin is buried and I'll show you a Communist Plot.
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Music is in me. I don't have much of a choice. People might listen to one of my songs or come and see my because of my famous last name, but if my music's not good they won't hang around.
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Unless people can be kept in the dark, it is best for those who love the truth to give them the full light.
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The thing I try to tell people who are just starting in the business is to listen to yourself, trust yourself, and be kind to yourself. And do the work to cultivate who you are and what your point of view is. Don't try to be like anybody else. That's what will make you an interesting artist.
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That's probably a problem for some people in this business, they don't like to listen.
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You can't live if you don't eat, but you don't live to eat. And neither does business exist primarily to make a profit. It exists to fulfill its purpose, whatever that might be.
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Voice is 10 times that of the access business.