Alan Parsons Quotes

The Sicilian Defense album was never released and never will be if I have anything to do with it. I have not heard it since it was finished. I hope the tapes no longer exist.

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• If you were black, you experienced prejudice. It wasn't a real horrible thing for us; we went through it. We noticed it mostly in the South and in Las Vegas, where we couldn't stay in the hotels where we entertained. But that began to change.

  

  Harold Nicholas
  • Real
  • Black
  • Change

• I wouldn't mind having my heart broken because it would mean that I had that much feeling connected to somebody. And that would be really great.

  

  Sally Field
  • Great
  • Mind
  • Heart

• In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Truth
  • Politics
  • Argument

• It's easy to get published once you have written a really good book and the hard part, 99 percent of what you need to worry about, is really finishing it.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Good
  • Book
  • Worry

• Identify your niche and dominate it. And when I say dominate, I just mean work harder than anyone else could possibly work at it.

  

  Nate Parker
  • Work
  • Mean
  • Say

• But I have never wanted to be a singer, because the exterior part of a career, I don't like very much.

  

  Victoria de los Angeles
  • Career
  • Like
  • Never

• On the Day of Atonement, Jews are commanded to seek forgiveness from the people we have hurt.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • People
  • Day
  • Hurt

• Still, records are documents of a period of time. Most records are documents of two or three years, and I just approached it as a record I was doing over a 20-year period of time.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • Time
  • Years
  • Period

• Obviously Hall & Oates wasn't overlooked by the masses in terms of the record sales.

  

  Inara George
  • Sales
  • Masses
  • Overlooked

• Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Strength
  • Feet
  • Stand

• Make no mistake: the anti-war voices long for us to lose any war they cannot prevent.

  

  Ralph Peters
  • Long
  • War
  • Mistake

• I had a dream cast when Dan first went off and wrote 'Ghostbusters 3' by himself. It was so long ago that my dream cast was Ben Stiller, Chris Farley, and Chris Rock. That would have been cool. Now, a lot of time has passed, and there are a lot of young funny people.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• I hate all the terrorists in the world, whatever the purpose of their struggle. However, I support every active civil revolt against any occupation, and Israel, too, is among the despicable occupiers. Such revolt is both more just and more effective, and it does not extinguish one's spark of humanity.

  

  Yossi Sarid
  • World
  • Hate
  • Support

• It's terrible to realize you don't learn how to live until you're ready to die, and then it's too late.

  

  Edna Ferber
  • Live
  • Die
  • Learn

• There's a melody in everything. And once you find the melody, then you connect immediately with the heart. Because sometimes English or Spanish, Swahili or any language gets in the way. But nothing penetrates the heart faster than the melody.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Heart
  • Sometimes
  • English

• Unfunny people should be locked up, the key tossed into a smelter.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • People
  • Up
  • Key

• I have personally seen what a devastating medical condition can cost.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Medical
  • Cost
  • Seen

• At the national level, I don't know how to describe a threat to destroy Country A in order to punish Country B other than to call it state terrorism.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Country
  • Know
  • How

• I take my work seriously, but I don't necessarily take myself seriously.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Work
  • Myself
  • Seriously

• Ultimately, the forces of dictatorship and extremism robbed me of my mother, but she lives on as a symbol of hope, a role model for women across the world. She proved beyond a doubt, with her life and relentless courage, that women can certainly do everything.

  

  Bilawal Bhutto Zardari
  • Life
  • World
  • Women

• My greatest hope is that we learn how trauma induces neurodegeneration in susceptible individuals.

  

  Ann McKee
  • Hope

• If I fall over and make mistakes, I'll pick myself back up and hope for the best and try to conduct myself with as much authenticity and moral code.

  

  Nicole Kidman
  • Hope
  • Mistakes
  • Authenticity

• When I'd go to Israel, I felt like a tourist. My social and professional ties had started to dissolve, and it confused me. I didn't know whether I should stay here in Paris or go back to Israel, or even cut off all my ties with Israel so I could really plant roots here. Or maybe go somewhere else altogether.

  

  Yael Naim
  • Professional
  • Paris
  • Plant

• The Sicilian Defense album was never released and never will be if I have anything to do with it. I have not heard it since it was finished. I hope the tapes no longer exist.

  

  Alan Parsons
  • Hope
  • Album
  • Tapes