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'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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There must be free and open interdepartmental discussion and consideration of everyone's ideas and opinions. These internal discussions must not be considered an invasion of turf, and must remain private... When everyone is on the same page, trust develops, and teams can grow and succeed together.
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I'd love to work in America, some of my favourite films come from America.
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I don't expect to get 100 percent of what I want, but what we can't do is go back to the kind of top-down economics that doesn't work.
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I decided to do graduate studies in virology at Stanford University in California because it had a hospital, which made working on clinical applications easier.
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The 'Story of Silent Night', which was given to me one Christmas when I was six - it was the story of a down and out composer who had no ideas left, and it was Christmas, and he came up with the hymn 'Silent Night.'
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My earliest influences were things I heard in my household.
