Elvin Bishop Quotes
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At night I dream that you and I are two plants that grew together, roots entwined, and that you know the earth and the rain like my mouth, since we are made of earth and rain.
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Hate is baggage. Life's too short to be pissed off all the time. It's just not worth it.
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Americans have started a lot of projects around the world and I am one of them.
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Decisions are made by people who have time, not people who have talent.
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Since I was a little child, my nose - I think it's too big.
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So far, at least, I haven't found a way to tell my kind of stories without making them both sad and funny.
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Arrogance and fanaticism cause the hardening of positions taken and entrenchment can only lead to a dead end.
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When I was nine years old, Star Trek came on, I looked at it and I went screaming through the house, 'Come here, mum, everybody, come quick, come quick, there's a black lady on television and she ain't no maid!' I knew right then and there I could be anything I wanted to be.
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You see the same plain landscape day after day, and then one day, perhaps it's the play of light or the time of year, you find it beautiful and other landscapes at fault. So it must be with fashion. Ordinary judgement falls into abeyance and something else, some bewitchment, takes over. How else to explain the appeal of garments that in a few years look so ridiculous?
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For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
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Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy.
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I was very skinny, but that was just my natural build. I always ate sensibly - being thin was in my genes.
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To me, a lemonade stand is a metaphor for a gathering place. It’s like an anchor of community where, I hope, people can just come and be filled by this music. I want them to feel like they can just show up and be who they are, and be reminded of the fact that they are not alone, and reminded of the dreams they had as a kid at a lemonade stand.
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I fooled around and fell in love.
