Greg Lake Quotes
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I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life.
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There never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of the sword.
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I'm constantly trying to keep people guessing as to what I'm doing, and I will spend enormous amounts of time looking at manuscripts and asking questions, and people will say, 'I know what his next book is about.'
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God is of no importance unless He is of supreme importance.
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In the name of the constitution of Texas, which has been trampled upon, I refuse to take this oath. I love Texas too well to bring civil strife and bloodshed upon her.
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Emmitt Smith is a great running back. One of the things I like about him along with Edgerrin James is that neither one of them 'show out' when they run a touchdown.
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You don't cruise the Internet looking for your name and walk away with a good feeling. So, I never do it.
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It's always great when you're really needed.
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If you want to go beyond that small percentage of people who are already environmentally and scientifically aware, you have to make your work somehow link with a passion, interest, or profession of someone who isn't interested in science or nature.
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Malaysia is a country unlike any other: Full of promise and fragility. Its history, cultural and religious diversity make it a rich, compelling and surprising land.
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I'm actually a very lazy person. Most of the time, I'm happy to sit around and stare. Or watch bad TV soaps. It's quite rare for me to get inspired by anything, but it could be something small. A view of the Serpentine. A snatch of music. Or a little shred of conversation overheard on a bus, such as, 'You also will marry someone of my choice.'
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Take a newspaper account of Waterloo or Trafalgar, with all the small advertisements: it seems much more real than reading about it in a history book.
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World Cups can be career-defining.
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Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.
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I had a chance to play for the Cuban national team during the 2009 World Baseball Classic, but at the time I never thought about leaving Cuba.
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You'll go insane if you try to have a picture-book house.
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My personal view is that organisations have a capacity to throw up extraordinary leaders to suit the occasion.
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The way you play, you need to talk about winning. Don't talk about keeping your card - talk about winning.
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I can no more separate my serious concerns about the world from my cockeyed way of seeing it than I can keep apart my personal and professional selves.
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Exciting discoveries in neuroscience are allowing us to fit educational methods to new understandings of how the brain develops.
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No man has the right to use the great powers of the Presidency to lead the people, indirectly, into war.
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The rational intellect doesn't have a great deal to do with love, and it doesn't have a great deal to do with art. I am often, in my writing, great leaps ahead of where I am in my thinking, and my thinking has to work its way slowly up to what the 'superconscious' has already shown me in a story or poem.
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I used to say to my late wife, 'I have great faith in the American people.'
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I think for me, any great art is art which communicates human emotion.
