Daniel Lanois Quotes
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There is but one honest limit to the rights of a sentient being; it is where they touch the rights of another sentient being.
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I'm old enough to chew my peas and corn without choking.
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Music is like painting in sound. You take it into your inner heart and never lose it. It's eternally mysterious.
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Oliver laughed - actually laughed."I like this new Claire," he said. "You should work her this hard all the time, Myrnin. She's interesting when she's forthright." Claire, possessed by the spirit of Eve, shot him the finger. Which made him laugh again, shake his head, and walk up the steps.
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There is a peculiar aesthetic pleasure in constructing the form of a syllabus, or a book of essays, or a course of lectures. Visions and shadows of people and ideas can be arranged and rearranged like stained-glass pieces in a window, or chessmen on a board.
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The English, a spirited nation, claim the empire of the sea; the French, a calmer nation, claim that of the air.
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Your lies didn't stop me loving you; your truth hasn't stopped me either.
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The idea we have of prison is a scary place that also houses crazy people. And, to me, it was like, none of these guys were scary. They may have done things that are violent or scary, but these are not people that I feel nervous being around, and it feels like to me that we're wasting these men's lives in prison.
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You do not need to be different from who you are. You only need to be more of the person you already are.
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Peter had a genius for imitation; but he lacked true genius, which is creative and makes all from nothing.
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My bad head cannot adjust itself to the way things are.... If I want to depict spring, it has to be in wintertime; if I want to describe a beautiful landscape, I must be enclosed within walls; and I have said a hundred times that if I were put in the Bastille, there I would paint a picture of liberty.
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Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.
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I would not flinch from sacrificing even a million lives for India's liberty.
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Occasionally if I look back at something I've written I'll find one of those that I don't understand, but that's a bad thing - the unconscious has dealt me a bad hand.
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Of agitating good roads there is no end, and perhaps this is as it should be, but I think you'll agree that it is high time to agitate less and build more. Here is a plan whereby the automobile industry of America can build a magnificent "Appian Way" from New York to San Francisco, having it completed by May 1, 1915 and present it to the people of the United States.
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A pattern has an integrity independent of the medium by virtue of which you have received the information that it exists.
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Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all God's children.
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We're really in limbo. Frustrated is the best word I can come up with.
