Al Jardine Quotes
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I accept you, and you get the same respect from me whether you are black, white, gay straight, Asian, bisexual, Australian, tall, fat, whatever it is. We are all people, and I look at the people of the world the same way, as my brothers and sisters.
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I don't study; I create.
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We are perverse creatures and never satisfied.
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In the years leading up to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, thinking about defense was driven by ideas that regarded successful military operations as ends in themselves rather than just one instrument of power that must be coordinated with others to achieve - and sustain - political goals.
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When I was small, I was the same as everyone else. I used to play in a small council estate nearby. But it's really my family who taught me. I started watching my dad play from the age of two. I wanted to be like him.
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When I represent Team GB, I never give less than 100 per cent. It is an absolute honour.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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Athletes at all ages are bigger and stronger than ever before. And they are being encouraged - sometimes even incentivized, as we recently learned was the case on at least one National Football League team - to play to injure.
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The success of ISIS is largely tied to the safe haven it has in Syria.
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Isolation is a big part of songwriting.
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Culture follows power.
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The NSA has different reporting requirements for each branch of government and each of its legal authorities.
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A pen is to me as a beak is to a hen.
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I can't do with mountains at close quarters - they are always in the way, and they are so stupid, never moving and never doing anything but obtrude themselves.
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Detroit is beautiful - though you probably have to be a child of the industrial Midwest, like me, to see it.
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As long as I am still interested and curious, I enjoy getting up in the morning, but I can't say I have a happy smile on my face 24/7.
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With the first act of cruelty committed in the name of revolution, with the first murder, with the first purge and execution, we have lost the revolution.
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I think I'm maintaining the quality, but internally I'm paying for it.
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I look at old photos of me, and I don't feel connected to them at all.
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I'm very interested in compassion - compassion for oneself and others. I write about very complicated characters and experiences and try to do it without judging the character or the action.
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If I can avoid doing stunts, I will. I don't want to die just for a movie. It's not worth it.
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I have some things that I need to deal with and address right now and so I have decided to leave Maroon 5. During this time, I do not want to be a distraction to my bandmates. I wish them the absolute best.
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I like to be surrounded by harmonies and fullness and richness and vitality.
