Danny Lyon Quotes
I was a bike rider, a photographer and a history student, probably in that order. (On his early years)
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Diversified interests must exist in every community, and that system which is best calculated to promote the general interest is the one which should be adopted and adhered to with fidelity.
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In my novels, there are twelve ancient 'memory tools,' all now lost. Each of the 'Reincarnationist' books revolves around a different tool.
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Whenever I see the news, it's always the same depressing things.
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I love being in public places, but I can't stand long, drawn-out music festivals.
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I think management and technology all come into play in building a super-yacht. It is a challenge - a serious challenge.
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The food that enters the mind must be watched as closely as the food that enters the body.
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I live in a constant state of hyperbole.
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When I started studying tenor saxophone as a kid in Belfast, I did so with a guy named George Cassidy, who was also a big inspiration.
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Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.
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The best kind of accountability on a team is peer-to-peer. Peer pressure is more efficient and effective than going to the leader, anonymously complaining, and having them stop what they are doing to intervene.
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Not a day has gone by in my life when I haven't thought about death.
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Military history shows air action only cannot achieve the goal of defeating an enemy.
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If something is successful with the audience, it's automatically suspect; the reverse is to say that not to reach audiences is the greatest compliment an artist can receive!
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Sensitive people faced with the prospect of a camera portrait put on a face they think is the one they would like to show to the world... Every so often what lies behind the facade is rare and more wonderful than the subject knows or dares to believe.
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Nyasaland was the perfect country for a volunteer. It was friendly and destitute; it was small and out-of-the-way. It had all of Africa's problems - poverty, ignorance, disease.
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Some politicians were probably too lax about the rise of an extremist, fundamentalist, radical ideology.
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I grew up in Belle Harbor, which is in New York City, but it has the most powerful sense of nature and seasons. It wasn't even the beach and the water. I just dreamt about everything that had to do with nature. I read about Thoreau.
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I'm not gonna apologize for who I am and what I've gone through.
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People are going to have a good time, you know. One can go have a good time at these big openings in museums. And people go to have a good time. But the thing has another purpose.In the case of museums, it's always got to do with money, people who donate and things like that. And I believe a certain kind of interest has to be demonstrated.
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The great thing about Santa Monica civic auditorium was it was a place you could ride your bike to. In this case, my dad dropped me and my friends off, and we'd go see Ronnie James Dio or Jean-Luc Ponty or Weather Report or the Pretenders.
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I'm a big tandem bike rider... I've had a tandem bike since I was 12, and I wanna be a competitive tandem bike rider one day.
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I have find that today's students are often more tolerant of human variance than students in earlier generations might have been. On the other hand, some of our students need much more interaction with a wide variety of peers so they level of understanding deepens and so they are prepared to live in a world that is only going to get smaller.
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Mankind has always made too much of its saints and heroes, and how the latter handle the fuss might be called their final test.
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I was a bike rider, a photographer and a history student, probably in that order. (On his early years)
