Don McLean Quotes
I have no idea how I do anything. I never have. You know 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. And I have been doing this for 40 years, adding songs and writing things, cobbling together albums, doing live things, you know, albums and tours. And then I have records on the charts. I have no idea how this happened.
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Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
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This life and this job and this position that I'm put in, it forces you to grow up quick. I definitely got dropped in the deep end.
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Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.
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I still consider myself a working-class girl and would send my kids to public school.
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In the Seventies, a lot of executions via electric chair failed because of technical problems. Seed tells the true story of someone who survived and sought revenge. They buried him alive to make it seem he was dead.
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Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.
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One of our first jobs was at Saba Software. We were helping them build their products for the cloud. We wanted to build our own product and move away from consulting. We were looking for a change. The CEO of Saba introduced me to Marc Benioff.
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I'm a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.
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The last few years of my life have been a little like a long ride in a Poop de Ville with the bottom down.
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I thought of learning cinematography, so I assisted a cinematographer for an ad.
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Turning 18 is a big deal.
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As newly created P2P businesses disrupt the status quo and compete with established companies, they face the difficulty of fitting a square peg into a round hole when it comes to existing regulatory regimes that don't contemplate their business models.
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My mother was madly adventurous. My father was an actor - he worked with Gielgud - and my mother came from a very wealthy family. She definitely wasn't meant to marry an actor, but she eloped with him one lunch-time.
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Working on my knowledge and education and learning how to become a more talented and wise person make me feel more sexy.
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More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
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My films have been progressing towards a certain kind of minimalism, even though it was never intended. Elements which can be eliminated have been eliminated.
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If the constitution goes, I go.
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Sports is a unique thing in our country. It's so influential. It's almost like a sacrament for religion.
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Actors will say, 'My character wouldn't say that.' Who said it was your character?
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Again and again since 9/11, terror attacks in the West have been carried out by second-generation Muslims who are citizens of the very country they are attacking.
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Drag me to the moon, to catch a star and seize its brilliance as I'm swept up in amorphous dust.
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'As Long As I Know I'm Getting Paid' is a satire. Lyrically, I want to be direct. With my history in Fall Out Boy, there's some expectation that I'm going to be lyrically obtuse. But that song is a straight-faced satire of consumerism.
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I have no idea how I do anything. I never have. You know 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. And I have been doing this for 40 years, adding songs and writing things, cobbling together albums, doing live things, you know, albums and tours. And then I have records on the charts. I have no idea how this happened.
