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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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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Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There's a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don't reconcile the poles. You just recognize them.
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I consider myself very lucky that I could live my life through all the ups and downs.
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His nature is such that our often coming does not tire him. The whole burden of the whole life of every man may be rolled on to God and not weary him, though it has wearied man.
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It's good to remember often, every day, that you are not a physical creature in a physical universe; but a non-physical consciousness vibrating at a certain frequency. You are Consciousness having a state of being, that's it. Everything else you perceive is simply an illusory crystallization of your chosen vibration. You are the Creator of your life, in this way.
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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.
