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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But I still think it's mind over matter in the sense that if you're strong, you can combat anything.
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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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I'm often troubled by a very strong instinct to share everything that's going on with me. I want to feel that connection, even with people I don't know. Then this other voice says, 'That's not prudent. People will use what you've said to hurt you.'
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My favorite song to play is 'Smokin' by Boston. I actually had a chance to play that with the band Boston live.
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Then there’s me… non-relevant, non-predicable… ass-headed.
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Acting, for me, is exhausting. I'm always more energized by directing. It's more intense to direct. I can pop in and express myself, then pop out again. It's a huge passion for me.
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I've come to believe in the primacy of form - the notion of art seducing you through your senses, through your eyeballs.
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I like to be surrounded by harmonies and fullness and richness and vitality.
