R. D. Laing Quotes
There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain.
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My advice to anybody, including myself, is if you're going through a bad period, and you just can't see the world's on your shoulders and no day is a good day, you're missing the whole point of the experience. And that's something dogs know from the moment they come bounding up to you as a puppy.
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.
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I just cannot imagine why anyone would want to be really famous. You go to a restaurant and people are pointing at you and they talk about you and they whisper and it is very disconcerting; it is a very odd feeling.
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I will say this: I think 'Big Brother' is the biggest snooze known to mankind.
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I think there is some truth to the fact that yeah, okay, cool, obviously the more mainstream kind of easier-to-grasp-onto dance music has become popular, but that holds true with almost any genre. It wasn't like the Sex Pistols hit the radio. It was poppier versions of that is what hit. It's never, like, the true core stuff.
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I am healthy and happy.
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I really am pretty boring. There's no reason to take pictures of me.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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I feel very grateful to be alive and well enough to make music.
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Celine Dion is my major inspiration.
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I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.
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I looked at Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and the boys up there thinking, I want to be that.
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Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.
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I do want to finish my education. I just don't think that Boston has a big enough market for what I want to do.
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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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If we get a few solid festival shows then I will have no problem booking the lads for as many quality club shows around them to make a nice tour come together.
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The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
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I also try to think of ways to articulate the joke more economically.
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I was in Liverpool city center and I thought I broke one of my toes, just by jumping on buses. I put my arm in the door on the outside, and the bus just drives away with me naked.
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When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.
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Awakening begins when a man realizes that he is going nowhere and does not know where to go.
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There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain.
