Donald Fagen Quotes
It's great to know that our old stuff still sounds good to our fans, just as it's wonderful to think that we've turned a few people on to jazz over the years.
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I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.
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It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.
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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
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We set up a situation and let you interact with it and see the consequences of your choice. That's what gaming does.
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Someone once said that you can make the choice between getting old and getting creepy, and I think getting old is the way to go.
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The logical thing is to implement the Arab Defense Agreement.
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A smart phone essentially creates a dossier of your travels, and consumers have no control over who will eventually see that information.
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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
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Abraham Lincoln is singular. Abraham Lincoln, before he was killed, stood up and, you know, for the first time from any sitting president, stood for the right for suffrage for African-American men who had served in the Civil War. And that's a limited suffrage, but it was quite radical at the time.
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I didn't develop or build synths. I had my technicians modify them for my live stage performances.
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Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.
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Why do I always choose the shopping cart with the squeaky wheel? Is it my bad luck, or are all the carts dysfunctional?
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In the United States, oil demand is projected to grow by 340,000 barrels per day this year and gasoline demand is projected to grow nearly two percent, averaging 9.3 million barrels per day for the summer.
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I just wanted to defend football, which is not always easy to do. Those of us who have been in the sport so many years now realise we must protect it and look after it. I was speaking about football, what it means. It is our profession, it has been our lives, and we must take care of it a little.
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You can write the best book you can, and that might still not be enough. Appeal isn't something that most writers can't strive for or identify. It's something even the best agents and editors can't always identify.
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Let me encourage you, if someone has wronged you, and you still get that cringing feeling on the inside when you see or think about that person, take it to God and allow Him to keep your heart soft and sensitive.
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After the Battle of Midway there was a week in a rest camp at Pearl Harbor.
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The new discovery of a 3.3 billion barrel oil deposit off Norway's coast cements that nation's claim to being Europe's second largest oil producer.
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As no one knew much about my mental illness, a lot of people had the attitude that I had the capability to 'kick it' and get better instantly. This was the most frustrating attitude for me.
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I've never been a mean person.
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My dad recently reminded me that my grandfather's cousin was Lefty Frizzell.
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It's great to know that our old stuff still sounds good to our fans, just as it's wonderful to think that we've turned a few people on to jazz over the years.
