Robert Lamm Quotes
When you've been playing for 35 years, there aren't too many 'firsts' left. But this is definitely the first time we've ever played a record company's lobby.
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That is what fame is, isn't it? To get the world to fall in love with you.
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When I was a kid, my mother used to film all of our holidays and all of the good times, and I kind of associated the camera with everything being okay and everything being happy.
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I'm a bit of a magpie: whatever I see or hear or read feeds into the songs.
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Accepting your own mortality is like eating your vegetables: You may not want to do it, but it's good for you.
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In the garment trades, on the other hand, the presence of a body of the disfranchised, of the weak and young, undoubtedly contributes to the economic weakness of these trades.
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My man has to be more intelligent than I am, which is difficult to find. He should definitely be more successful than me, which is not so difficult to find. I'd be a fool to expect a better looking man than me, which is impossible to find.
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The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.
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Don't worry about being a star, worry about doing good work, and all that will come to you.
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I set my sights on making an Olympic team, not realizing how tough it was going to be.
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Canadians are very well behaved, they don't throw their food.
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Most of my ideas come from drawing patterns across conversations I have with different types of people - technology investors, young fashion design students, a CEO. This variety is stimulating and offers many different perspectives on the things I am thinking about.
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You know I don't really have faith in politicians - this is quite a sleazy business. But there is no law which says that all politicians will turn out to be scumbags.
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Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
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All my books are very spiritual. I started out writing what was most natural to me, many years ago, which is religious, because I grew up in the jungle, the son of missionaries. I want to know, is God real? What's a priest's role?
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During the day, I don't wear much makeup; I only put on makeup for the show.
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There are hardly any left in New York City. The San Francisco Bay Area is very fortunate to still have a lot of independent bookstores.
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Music, I suppose, will be the thing that sustains me in the time of my life when I am too old for sex and not quite ready to meet God. It has always been an essential part of me.
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I'm a bad pessimist. I don't think about how successful any record I've ever done is going to do before it came out.
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I feel like I'll be defined more so by ... when I get a chance to play roles where I'm the father/husband. I'd like to continue with the action stuff, but when I get to play the father/husband role, I think that will be the time where I'm playing who I really am. I look forward to playing those kind of heroic characters, the types that are usually associated with Denzel Washington.
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Lots of us have expertise in particular areas. Becoming an expert in something means that we become more and more fascinated by nuance and complexity. That's when the Curse of Knowledge kicks in, and we start to forget what it's like not to know what we know.
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When you've been playing for 35 years, there aren't too many 'firsts' left. But this is definitely the first time we've ever played a record company's lobby.
