David Longdon Quotes
The awards are voted for by progressive rock fans, so it gives us an indication of where we stand within our genre. We are very lucky that some people like our music enough to want to vote for it. We are especially delighted that our music makes a strong connection with some people.

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Science fiction frees you to go anyplace and examine anything.
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I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS.
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People often try to disguise televisions. I always think that makes it worse. It is what it is!
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I want to have my desperate need for personal success shrunk, not enlarged.
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My father taught me photography. It was his hobby, and we had a small darkroom in the fruit cellar of our basement. It was the kind of makeshift darkroom that was only dark at night.
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In the Constitution of the United States, Negroes are referred to as fellows although the word 'slave' is carefully avoided before the thirteenth amendment.
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I hope to instill, in every child I meet, my love and enthusiasm for reading and stories.
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I do not want to be a long-term CEO.
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Latin music has many international influences - pop, rock, country, Brazilian sounds, and alternative styles.
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Most people don't know what they spend in every single area, but they know they have a problem in particular areas.
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I remember Mr. Mayer very well. He sort of liked to be the father - no, he liked to be treated like you thought he was Daddy, but he didn't treat you like Daddy at all.
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I haven't been hit since Leon Spinks hit me in '92.
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The main engagement of the writer is towards truthfulness; therefore he must keep his mind and his judgement free.
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My father worked in the Post Office. A lot of double shifts. All his friends were in the same situation - truck drivers, taxi cab drivers, grocery clerks. Blue collar guys punching the clock and working long, hard hours. The thought that sustained them was the one at the center of the American dream.
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In 'For Whom the Bell Tolls,' Hemingway cozies up to revolution by romanticizing it (and not only with those execrable love scenes).
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It would be a pity if, frustrated by the price of travel, we elected to become a society that never made contact, that never gave SETI a fair chance.
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I love women. I'm trying to do beautiful things with them. I'm not trying to insult them. My life is not about that.
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My point is that you cannot force social change at a speed that it cannot go. Social change is evolutionary, not revolutionary. Deep social change takes time. And slowly the culture is changing. The MTV generation is far more tolerant, and that tolerance is growing.
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The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.
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You're familiar with the tragedies of antiquity, are you? The great homicidal classics?
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You have to take the chance to bomb and disappoint audiences.
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Country music is completely punk-rock. It's the original punk-rock.
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Beginning under the Roman Empire, intellectual leadership in the West had been provided by Christianity. In the middle ages, who invented the first universities - in Paris, Oxford, Cambridge? The church.
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The awards are voted for by progressive rock fans, so it gives us an indication of where we stand within our genre. We are very lucky that some people like our music enough to want to vote for it. We are especially delighted that our music makes a strong connection with some people.