Boz Scaggs Quotes
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Nature can always be more complicated than we imagine.
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People are really talkative in New York. Someone always comes up to me and says 'Hi' during the day.
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I was also the romantic lead in The Boston Strangler - I was the only one that lived to tell the story - so I called myself the romantic lead.
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History is the heavy traffic that prevents us from crossing the road. We wait, more or less patiently, for it to pause, so that we can get to the liquor store or the laundromat or the burger bar.
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'Paper Planes' was an accident. It wasn't a song we made for the masses. It took two years to get popular, and there were many fights about censoring the gunshot sounds.
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I love writing but hate starting. The page is awfully white, and it says, 'You may have fooled some of the people some of the time, but those days are over, giftless. I'm not your agent, and I'm not your mommy; I'm a white piece of paper. You wanna dance with me?' and I really, really don't. I'll go peaceable-like.
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Smart authors, faced with storms, chose to create umbrellas. That's why a diverse group of authors banded together to create The Fiction Writer's Co-op, which will work to find innovative ways to promote each other's work and cheer each other on in a very competitive field.
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Music is amazing. There's some metaphysical comfort where it allows you to be isolated and alone while telling you that you are not alone... truly, the only cure for sadness is to share it with someone else.
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Many works of the ancients have become fragments. Many works of the moderns are fragments at the time of their origin.
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I have never said that there is no need for a guru. All depends on what you call guru. He need not be in a human form.
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I'm very scared sometimes that fashion might attack its own magic by the amount of exposure.
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They're criminals, they brutalized Afghanistan, they killed our people, they destroyed our land.
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I collect imported teas, I have a few cupboards full! It's like wine, each has it's own flavour and you get into their little nuances.
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Accidents on big mountains happen when people's ambitions cloud their good judgment. Good climbing is about climbing with heart and with instinct, not ambition and pride.
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The lies we live will always be confessed in the stories that we tell.
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Those writers who lay on the watch for novelty, could have little hope of greatness; for great things cannot have escaped former observation.
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People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.
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I would like to think there's some purity in us, yeah. Naive - y'know, purposely naive.
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Mechanics is the paradise of the mathematical sciences because by means of it one comes to the fruits of mathematics.
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Dissociation is adaptive: it allows relatively normal functioning for the duration of the traumatic event and then leaves a large part of the personality unaffected by the trauma.
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For me, there are no my people and strangers, no bad people and good people. All people are equal for me.
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The passive acceptance of exclusionary words and deeds is not okay.
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Enlightenment doesn't mean we were never wounded; it means we've found a way to evolve beyond our wounds. Enlightenment isn't idealistic; it's practical. What's idealistic is thinking we can live from our wounds, stay in our weakness, and ever transform the world.
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My earliest influences were things I heard in my household.
