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.
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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.
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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
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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.
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Identify your niche and dominate it. And when I say dominate, I just mean work harder than anyone else could possibly work at it.
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But I have never wanted to be a singer, because the exterior part of a career, I don't like very much.
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On the Day of Atonement, Jews are commanded to seek forgiveness from the people we have hurt.
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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.
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Obviously Hall & Oates wasn't overlooked by the masses in terms of the record sales.
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Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
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Make no mistake: the anti-war voices long for us to lose any war they cannot prevent.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Unfunny people should be locked up, the key tossed into a smelter.
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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.
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My wife, Keisha, came home once, and I had these violinists playing for her, and I'd prepared dinner for her, and I write poems. She's pretty amazing, so I like to celebrate that. She's really taught me how to celebrate life; that's something I've learned.
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Mildred Pierce was capable of great acts of love as a mother.
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Over the years, Western governments have been criticized for working with foreign police who have proved abusive or corrupt.
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Pretty unbelievable. She's a special lady. Forget what she's done on a golf course. I don't think you will meet a better person. She's been all about us. We have been all about each other and team. The bond that this team has molded ... there's a lot of good thoughts, a lot of goodwill, a lot of good energy.
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That has always been a strength of Haiti: Beyond crisis, it has beautiful art; it has beautiful music. But people have not heard about those as much as they heard about the coups and so forth. I always hope that the people who read me will want to learn more about Haiti.
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The greatest lessons I have every learned were at my mother's knees... All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
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One of the things that's kind of persistent is that I am the model on the cover of Tom Waits' album, Small Change.
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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.
