Ed Simons Quotes
When you're onstage, you can see the front row and get a general impression of what's going on, but you're in your own zone.
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I played trumpet in the school bands. I learned things I liked to play on my trumpet, but I didn't learn why this note goes with this note and why it produces that sound. Or how to create tension in the composition.
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I'm glad I've never been so successful that I couldn't stop doing one thing. I've kind of been able to just kick it along and switch around.
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Arizonans want us to come together, put aside politics, and solve problems. You want us to do our jobs in way that reflects the best of our state. You want us to stop and listen - something that doesn't always come naturally to people in politics.
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There are comics who treat women fairly appallingly. But I can be great friends with them because I don't tend to do that ticking of boxes: it can make life too simplistic.
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Even though I know how very far apart we are, it helps to think we might be wishing underneath the same bright star.
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Like, my mother would have company over, and I would sing so they'd pay attention to me.
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We needed to make a few more plays. I think field position was an issue and not being able to get enough plays when we needed to.
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The people who go get an LL album want to hear LL. They don't want to hear LL trying to sound like DMX or whoever else is out there. That's not what they want to hear from me, because if they want to hear that they can go get the real thing.
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I didn't really understand the concept of feminism until the media started to talk about it surrounding my name.
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That's what happens in the world. You get offered superior contracts.
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It is conceivable that religion may be morally useful without being intellectually sustainable.
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Decent people should ignore politics, if only they could be confident that politics would ignore them
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I love metaphor the way some people love junk food.
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I'm not gay, a lotta people think I'm gay. I have a girlfriend. She thinks I'm gay.
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Love must neither beg nor demand. Love must be strong enough to find certainty within itself. It then cease to be moved and becomes the mover.
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...to see the light. (Last words)
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She's always polite and kind, but her words lack the kind of curiosity and excitement you'd normally expect. Her true feelings- assuming such things exist- remain hidden away. Except for when a practical sort of decision has to be made, she never gives her personal opinion about anything. She seldom talks about herself, instead letting others talk, nodding warmly as she listens. But most people start to feel vaguely uneasy when talking with her, as if they suspect they're wasting her time, trampling on her private, graceful, dignified world. And that impression is, for the most part, correct.
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The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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Obey; this may be right; but beware of reverence.... Government is nothing but regulated force; force is its appropriate claim upon your attention. It is the business of individuals to persuade; the tendency of concentrated strength, is only to give consistency and permanence to an influence more compendious than persuasion.
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When you're onstage, you can see the front row and get a general impression of what's going on, but you're in your own zone.
