Don McLean Quotes
I'm glad that my music has helped other people as it's helped me. It makes me glad that I did what I did with my life.
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There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.
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Both my parents are Scottish, and although I grew up in Canada after moving over, all of my family are proud to be Scots.
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There is a role and function for beauty in our time.
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I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.
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I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.
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The entrepreneurial bug had already bitten my son Ankur by the time he got to college. As a lifelong entrepreneur, I certainly didn't want to dampen his enthusiasm by telling him he couldn't do it, but I also wanted to make sure it was balanced with the proper attention to his studies.
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Yes, our band will change and evolve, but we want to establish the reality of what this band truly sounds like.
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When you're a teenager, you want to meet a lot of girls - you want to get the most girls. You don't know anything about respect; you don't know anything about being faithful and loyal to your girlfriend.
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Cooking and eating at home is made even better by the fact that you don't have to worry about driving after a couple of bottles of very nice wine. For me that's the ideal combination: working hard and enjoying the fruits of your labour.
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I enjoyed making this album a lot because of the knowledge we acquired over the last 3 years.
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We're all interconnected. For example, a simple lack of fresh water can lead to population dislocation, which can lead to political radicalization, which can lead to great pressure on the states that receive refugees because of a migrating population.
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I'm ready for a different America.
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Our family suffers from a hereditary condition called, generally, mental illness. Specifically, multiple family members in successive generations have suffered from either bipolar disorder or schizophrenia.
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The plastic bottle we're throwing away every day still stays there. And if we show that to people, then we can also promote some behavioral change.
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My father... removed from Kentucky to... Indiana, in my eighth year... It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up... Of course when I came of age, I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher... but that was all.
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At its core, banking is not simply about profit, but about personal relationships.
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Meanwhile, politics is about getting a candidate in front of the public as a star, politics as rock'n'roll, politics as a movie.
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The show is called 'MacGyver,' and I've got to be there every day. There are probably a lot of girls out there watching the show that I don't have time to talk to.
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I remember Ella Fitzgerald sort of coming into my life like a bolt of lightning - like, what is that? It was one of the purest examples of God in art that I'd ever seen.
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I'm a paranoid person. I really am.
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When people ask us how long does it take for something to manifest, we say, It takes as long as it takes you to release the RESISTANCE. Could be 30 years, could be 40 years, could be 50 years, could be a week. Could be tomorrow afternoon.
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I'm glad that my music has helped other people as it's helped me. It makes me glad that I did what I did with my life.
