Daniel Lanois Quotes
Fishes and tales And a fisherman's daughter Walks in the rain, She walks to the water To the sea.
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You don't have to be an heiress to look like one, if you act like one then everyone will just presume you are one.
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Indeed the three prophecies about the death of individual art are, in their different ways, those of Hegel, Marx, and Freud. I don't see any way of getting beyond those prophecies.
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God made them as stubble to our swords.
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It comes back to the same old question people are always asking me: 'When are you going to do a solo record?' Well, if I did, it would probably be similar to 'Baluchitherium,' meaning it would be Van Halen music - which I write anyway - but without singing.
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I think I'm the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ - I'm pretty annoying, but driven.
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It's easier to rip somebody to shreds while you're making them laugh.
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A democratically elected congressman of the United States of America should not be talking of an ethnic divide in Afghanistan, should not be interfering in Afghanistan's internal affairs.
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Do I like foreign aid? Sometimes, but not every time. Don't like giving money to our enemies, but I love giving money to Israel.
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Whenever someone says the word community, I want to reach for an oxygen mask.
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Christ beside me, Christ before me, Christ behind me, Christ within me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me.
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If you do an autopsy on an 85-year-old who died of a stroke, you will find five other things that person was about to die from.
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Hip-hop is the only music in the world where you can take any instrument and make it hip hop. It's anybody's music. It's what you make of it. That's for anything you do in life.
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The guiding principle is not to manufacture the goods everyone needs, rather to earn profits for a few capitalists.
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I have been shocked at the number of people who don't watch television.
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Everybody wants attention, more or less. I just want a lot.
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It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through.
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I feel increasingly like age is very irrelevant. Quite often, cynicism is confused with wisdom, and my scorn is confused with a knowing, which I don't have.
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Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me, the idea that I could always do better, learn more, learn faster, is something that came from skating.
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More people would recognise me in Kingston, but it's rare to go on the road and not get recognised by someone. The problem now is everyone has a camera in their pocket, on their cell phone - at the airport it's difficult to get from point A to point B without taking half an hour because there are so many people taking pictures.
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To me, acting is like tennis. You're only as good as the person you're playing with, so if you're playing with Michael C. Hall, what do you have to worry about?
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Writing songs has always been hard and easy. It's not always easy when you want it to be, and then sometimes it's just like turning on the faucet. That's just the nature of it.
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Obama hates selling. He thinks people should just accept the right thing to do.
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Not by vows nor by womanish prayers is the help of the gods obtained; success comes through vigilance, energy, wise counsel.
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Fishes and tales And a fisherman's daughter Walks in the rain, She walks to the water To the sea.
