Don McLean Quotes
American Pie speaks to the loss that we feel. That's why that song has found the niche that it has.
Quotes to Explore
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People said, 'How could you walk away from music?' But being a dad - there's nothing that can touch that.
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I've wanted to write comics ever since I figured out it was a job.
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Elvis was a big influence to my music, but Loretta Lynn was, as well.
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I really like just super dry comedy.
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And I mean I never doubt anybody's record.
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When I was prepping for my Broadway debut as Romeo, it really hit me that I had never done that. I had trained at drama school for three years in my late teens to early 20s, and I'd studied Shakespeare, of course, but I hadn't actually performed it. So to do something like Romeo for my first Broadway role was a challenge.
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I feel very grateful to be alive and well enough to make music.
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No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.
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Sometimes, it's just unfortunate you get injured in the game. But you can definitely take strides to prevent those things.
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Your most precious possessions on offense are your twenty-seven outs.
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It is no surprise that companies do not often respond to moral pressure alone. We need to hit them hard in their pocketbook and on their balance sheet. We need to show them that their stock prices will be affected if their actions encourage Iran's nuclear weapons ambitions.
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It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.
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I was eight when I left Sarajevo, so I didn't really know very much about my culture and it was so important for me to go back to my roots and meet the people.
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Living in Cape Breton, it's really all about fiddle music, so it's not like there were other instruments out there that tempted me and it was like I had to decide which one. It was automatically fiddle, because it's the predominant instrument in Cape Breton Island.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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When Princess Diana got married, I was a very little kid, I think. I remember her dress, and I found the dress amazing when I was a kid.
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When I am working it is up early and coffee and 15 hours of being on the set. When I am not working, it is up late and coffee, golf or softball and hopefully a ball game on the television.
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Who made the world I cannot tell; 'Tis made, and here am I in hell. My hand, though now my knuckles bleed, I never soiled with such a deed.
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Software is becoming no different than a videotape or a record album or a paperback book, and not all of us are ready for that change.
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An army's bravest men are its cowards. The death which they would not meet at the hands of the enemy they will meet at the hands of their officers, with never a flinching.
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He seems to want confrontation not only with the legislature and with the other elected officials, but he wants constant confrontation in order to be center stage on the television screen.
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To be ignorant and to be deceived are two different things. To be ignorant is to be a slave of the world. To be deceived is to be the slave of another man. The question will always be: Why, when all men are ignorant, and therefore already slaves, does this latter slavery sting us so?
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American Pie speaks to the loss that we feel. That's why that song has found the niche that it has.
