Don McLean Quotes
I just started playing guitar and started singing and started working on this act that I would call 'Don McLean' when I was probably in high school.
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America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.
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Food is everything. Food, friends, family: Those are the most important things in life.
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Part of America's greatness is its willingness to care for those who are truly in need. But those who defraud the system take money and resources away not only from American taxpayers but also from those who truly need help.
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I was shot when I think it was number one. That was the catalyst for the interest in the show. Certainly it went on for a long time after that but that's what really kicked it off. Of course a lot of people watched it just because of the novelty of the situation.
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Strong limits on carbon pollution will save Americans money, create jobs, improve our health, and help defuse climate change.
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Purgatory fire will be more intolerable than all the torments that can be felt or conceived in this life.
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In my case, symptoms began to appear when I was only 57. In fact, the doctors believe early-onset Alzheimer's has a strong genetic predictor, and that it may have been progressing for some years before I was diagnosed.
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I just don't tend to cook eggplant at home.
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Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.
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The 21st century - and the atheists - needs the presence of religion, just as religion must deal with the real challenges and the thinkers of the day in order to sharpen the conscience and the intelligence of those who study the timeless sacred texts in a spirit of responding to the questions of their time.
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To play four hands requires two people who have great affinity for each other.
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I took a whole stunt course and pretty much got certified as a stunt driver. It's ridiculous how easy it is once you understand the car and know how to do it.
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No matter the bad things that happened in past time, let's try to live the best we can now.
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If you want to join the Republican party, they have to let you in. There's nothing they can do about it. I mean, if Republicans will take Al D'Amato, they'll take anybody.
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I think the difficult thing is the transition between TV competition series and going into the actual music industry. There still seems to be a slight disconnect there.
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There's a system in place in Nashville, and for a long time, I was trapped in this idea that the only way to do it was to come to town, get a record deal, and do it the way they say. And that system works. But it caters to a specific kind of artist, and I didn't necessarily fit that mold.
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After six years at Le Cirque, I decided to start my own business. I opened Daniel at 76th Street in May '93.
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No man fails who does his best.
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I spend most of my time at concerts hoping for that one second that the artist looks at me, I look at the artist, and that's when I get to say, 'Thank you.'
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I can't be bothered with narrative. It takes too long for me to try to think of it.
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The old fiction room at my high school was a small box of wonders, and no matter how long I spent investigating its seven and a half overstuffed shelves, I never stopped discovering treasures.
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Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.
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I still have a very nonintellectual, nonjudgmental relationship with melody and the music as I hear it all in my head.
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I just started playing guitar and started singing and started working on this act that I would call 'Don McLean' when I was probably in high school.
