Edward Young Quotes
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I don't much care whether rural Anatolians or Istanbul secularists take power. I'm not close to any of them. What I care about is respect for the individual.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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You know those little snow globes that you shake up? I always thought my brain was sort of like that. You know, where you just give it a shake and watch what comes out and shake it again. It's like that.
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I have so much music inside me I'm just trying to stay afloat. I don't tend to write for a particular band - you have to just write the songs and then let God into the room and let the music tell you what to do.
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I think that for a child to be in a household... with a situation where the parents are not married, as in being one man and one woman, is not the best household for a child.
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It would have been fun to have played Tim Robbins' role in Bull Durham.
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It only looks like I get to eat a lot of food on TV. I really just get the one bite and the crew and guests eat everything else.
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The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.
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Now I've been free, I know what a dreadful condition slavery is. I have seen hundreds of escaped slaves, but I never saw one who was willing to go back and be a slave.
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Sometimes, I'm very embarrassed.
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People don't slip. Time catches up with them.
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Factories not what they used to be - they're all extremely high-tech.
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Calculated risks of abuse are taken in order to preserve higher values.
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I've been into every doo-wop there is. I think I went to the university of doo-wop-ology.
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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
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I felt like if I wasn't around, maybe my shot would be gone.
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Understand, I had absolutely no interest in writing; I wanted to be a Writer.
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There are tons of examples of U.K. and European mistakes. A classic one is pensions. That's obviously not an America-specific thing. The British and European economies are suffering under the weight of what is to come. The next great Ponzi scheme after Madoff is probably pensions.
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As far as songwriting, my inspirations came from love, life and death, and viewing other people's situations.
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I like being with the band, the whole idea of playing music with them.
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Music is a lens through which to see who we are. Every phrase of every piece of music is trying to tell a story.
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The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location.
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Time flies, death urges, knells call, Heaven invites,Hell threatens.
