Donald Fagen Quotes
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The earth is my altar, the sky is my dome, mind is my garden, the heart is my home and I'm always at home - yea, I'm always at Om.
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As one grows older one becomes more critical of oneself and less of other people.
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I started modelling when I was 13, so I learned a lot of things. I actually love doing make-up on other people, too.
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How can we make sure that Confucianism is to be practiced? One must enforce it with power, and to have power, one must have a strong army.
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I run a charity. If my name pops up in your call ID, chances are I'm about to ask you for something - money, free ad space, your first born. So it is probably no surprise that people often don't take my calls.
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Feminism remains something that needs to be explained to people.
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Cooking for people is an enormously significant expression of generosity and soulfulness, and entertaining is a way to be both generous and creative. You're sharing your life with people. Of course, it's also an expression of your own need for approval and applause. Nothing wrong with that.
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AIDS is a horrible disease, and the people who catch it deserve compassion.
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I've been working for many years and I think I've managed to work with some of the best people in the business, which has been rewarding and an apprenticeship.
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I don't want to privatise part of the parliament, like some people in Russia.
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I'm all about small towns. I think it's a great place to grow up.
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Crazy old people are our entire source of polling information.
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South Africans are caring, compassionate and loving people.
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There's a picture there that people realize that, we stop helping Israel, we lose God's hand, and we're in big time trouble.
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To have a relationship that is pure and passionate and beautiful - I think people are scared of having that now. Especially guys.
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I think it's pretty normal that there are a lot of people out there who don't like us.
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I have enjoyed every call. The ones involving direct contact with people have been most rewarding.
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Quiet people, people who aren't given to emotional outbursts, people who are economic with words - they're also fun to play, but you find yourself needing a laser precision in those roles. Otherwise you just sort of stand around, looking slightly brain-dead. You worry about being uninteresting.
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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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Great organisations choose principles over people. When you give up on the principles, sooner or later you will break down.
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Those who draw their sustenance from science are blessed. It is for me to only derive an occasional pleasure. This is nothing worthy of conceit, but I am indeed touched by the joys. This book is an ode to such joys, a digest of my collections from various sources.
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I came from two harsh dictatorships, Nazi and Stalinist. I never thought of becoming a writer as such, yet in a lucid moment, I recognised what I had to do.
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Read. As much as you can. As deeply and widely and nourishingly and irritatingly as you can. And the good things will make you remember them, so you won't need to take notes.
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People are usually afraid to say what's on their mind.
