Logan Pearsall Smith Quotes
The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection, even though it consist in nothing more than the pounding of an old piano, is what alone gives a meaning to our life on this unavailing star.
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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Once you're signed to a label you compromise.
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There is total unanimity that the most serious threat facing the United States and Israel is a nuclear-armed Iran.
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My grandfather arrived in Houston in 1942 as a refugee from Nazi Germany. He had lost everything - his profession, his language, his money - but the city welcomed him, as it has hundreds of thousands of immigrants over the years.
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I like to discover new things.
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I began hearing rumors of apossible recording session with Neil Young. I was a huge fan of Neil's.
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I make a living playing rock n' roll. I'm not going to complain about anything.
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Really, life is complicated enough without having a bunch of Senators deciding what we should do in the privacy of our own homes.
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Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.
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I play some fighting games, but mostly I just play sports.
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Homecourt is everything in the NBA.
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Exposing your ignorance is how you get somebody to embrace you.
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Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future.
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When I watch a movie for the first few times I'm usually thinking about where I was in a given scene, who was next to me, what we were doing etc. But after I've gotten through all of this, when I'm really watching the film itself, then I get moved.
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I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
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Both my parents had heart problems: my mother had type 2 diabetes, and my father had a stroke.
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It's a very hard industry, and it's very cold. It's loving for when you have a hit record, but when you don't have anything going on, there's really not much support.
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Human writing reflects that of the universe; it is its translation, but also its metaphor: it says something totally different, and it says the same thing.
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I don't want to sound disingenuous here - controversy is obviously good for business, especially if your business is satire. And it does amplify the discussion - in my view, a good thing.
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My parents definitely sparked something in me. I'm sure of it. I saw how happy and fulfilled they were, and I knew I wanted the same job.
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'What?''Never mind. It will make sense when it comes about. All improbabilities do when probability waves collapse into event.'
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If you do every job like you're going to do it for the rest of your life, that's when you get noticed.
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The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection, even though it consist in nothing more than the pounding of an old piano, is what alone gives a meaning to our life on this unavailing star.
