Jeff Lynne Quotes
It's a livin' thing. It's a terrible thing to lose. It's a given thing. What a terrible thing to lose.
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We strivin' for perfection.
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When I was in college, I studied business because I thought I wanted to be a director and producer.
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I'm quite a precious painter; my style is a messy fine art - sort of impressionist. I do portraits, I love painting other artists, but recently, I've been playing around with self portraits, putting on different characters.
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I come from really humble people. We never had a lot.
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The United States is going to be a rich country, it is going to be prosperous, but it is not going to be able to take the lead in the next phase of global economic development.
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Not one role that I've played has been written specifically for me.
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I'm fascinated by sports, the buzz of winning, and the buzz of losing.
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There's only one set of books I've written that I knew was going to be more than one book at the beginning, and those are the 'Missing Link' books.
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A publicly run health care program could compete with private insurance companies, which have a record of overcharging and underperforming.
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I'm a total Disney freak. I want to live in Disney World.
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My folks have played everything from rock, disco, pop, funk, and blues. My dad has always brought and played different genres like jazz, classical, and Latin. With all this in my pocket, I feel I have a taste of everything for my influences.
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If I'm brave, 99% of it comes from my mother.
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My work is made on lines similar to those of a film production. A lot of my work is kind of bureaucratic, endlessly phoning up people, trying to find the cameraman and the lighting man, because I am a total technology-phobe, quite helpless with equipment.
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I like a little bit of punk mixed with a little bit of feminine.
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Church gives people a sense of community, a sense of how to behave... social support when times get tough. In a world where white working class folks are going to church less and less, they're losing that when they might really need it.
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They're such hierarchical things, film sets, they're sort of mini societies. Often they're incredibly political places.
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History is a hermaphrodite with many distinguished lovers. We are neither mysteries nor strangers but the living breath of revelation made flesh by the unrestrained desires of a free and universal love. Universal me. Universal you.
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Neither men nor women are exempt from killing loved ones. The difference is in what happens to them when they do. Twelve distinct female-only defenses allow a woman who commits a premeditated murder to have the charges dropped or significantly reduced. No man has successfully used any of these defenses in similar circumstances.
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This is a really difficult question. Although I once thought that a dream and an accomplishment are the same thing, I've now changed my mind. A dream is not something you can just reach out to, so I've come to the conclusion that one can only achieve their dream by accomplishing something little by little.
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Self-interest and mutual interest are inextricably linked. National interests can best be advanced through collective action, ... Calculate not just the human misery of the poor themselves. Calculate our loss: The aid, the lost opportunity to trade, the short-term consequences of the multiple conflicts; the long-term consequences on the attitude to the wealthy world of injustice and abject deprivation amongst the poor.
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Why can't ladies like nice guys?
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Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.
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It's a livin' thing. It's a terrible thing to lose. It's a given thing. What a terrible thing to lose.
