Don McLean Quotes
I've never done anything but what I wanted to do with my life. I don't think too many people can say that. I wrote the songs I wanted to write, for me. I had no idea that 'American Pie' would relate to anybody.
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My whole life, people have been saying, Why are you so angry?
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I suspect I am like most people on the Internet in that I sign up for all sorts of sites and frequently use the same passwords.
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Mostly people are ignorant, what is the language of painting. You know, they're ignorant. It is so difficult to make them aware, but time will teach them.
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The real debate is, when does life begin? When life begins, it deserves protection.
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Caste may be bad. Caste may lead to conduct so gross as to be called man's inhumanity to man. All the same, it must be recognized that the Hindus observe Caste not because they are inhuman or wrong-headed. They observe Caste because they are deeply religious.
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Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
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When I was a kid, I had two great guilty pleasures. One was horror movies and the other was martial arts movies.
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Becoming a vampire means completely changing your identity.
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I like to keep fit, but I never lift very heavy weights.
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Bad ballplayers make good managers.
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I have a great office.
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Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
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During my teenage years as an Islamist recruiter, I moved to live in self-contained communities in the London boroughs of Newham and Tower Hamlets.
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Writing is just very difficult. I'm an adequate performer. And I think I have a special talent as an editor. Editing is what I do best.
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When I was a kid, 'Blade Runner' was my favorite movie. I remember seeing that when I was a little boy with my dad.
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I just want to be really clear about this: Anyone who has read Colin Powell's biography - there's an entire section where he talks about experiencing segregation. Colin Powell did not appear when he became head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. That's not how it happened.
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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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It is every intelligent man's experience that evildoing recoils on the doer sooner or later.
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We go there with confidence, but we know there is a very fine line between success and failure in this game.
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The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.
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I had my mouth done when I was 27. It was a botched job. Obviously, if I had liked my mouth I wouldn't have had it re-done.
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You know why we're stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don't let themselves feel things.
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It's somewhat of a normal procedure sometimes when you have a knee drained... so long as it's not something you have to do every game.
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I've never done anything but what I wanted to do with my life. I don't think too many people can say that. I wrote the songs I wanted to write, for me. I had no idea that 'American Pie' would relate to anybody.
