Kelly Jones Quotes
The song Dakota was first written in Paris. I was doing a promo trip. It was snowing and the hotel room was really cold and boring and for some reason I just had a go of the guitar and the song came pretty quick.
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I live in the moment, and I reflect later.
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Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics.
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I think of Twitter as the place where I go to have a great conversation when I can't have one locally, which seems to be all the time, and the more time that I spend on Twitter, the more I sort of curate this incredible group of very intelligent people that I just get to know purely through the quality of their thoughts.
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A lot of business can be accomplished in the state dinners.
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I talk about myself in the third person all the time. I don't live my life in the way someone like you does. I live my life completely serving only my work and my fans.
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Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
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Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.
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The purpose of armed struggle is not simply to kill... its purpose is to reach a political goal.
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And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.
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I want to lay all my cards out on the table and walk away with no regrets.
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I don't like running when I'm holding things in my hand, whether it's a dog leash or a baby jogger. My mechanics get all messed up.
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The Gili Islands gave me some of my best scuba diving experiences, including tons of turtles.
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I had the feeling that focusing on objects and telling a story through them would make my protagonists different from those in Western novels - more real, more quintessentially of Istanbul.
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Well, I'm an independent person.
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I know how to wrap my turban a little better now. In the beginning, it was a little weird.
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'Islamism' itself is such a broad and nearly meaningless word as used by the mainstream Western press, including everything from Turkey's AKP party to al Qaeda.
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You'd better believe that Putin sees that in Syria, Obama draws a red line and ignores the red line.
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Winners never quit and quitters never win.
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By the time I got to college, the Cold War was basically over.
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Dear Sallie: I am very sorry you have a cold and you are in bed. I played with Mary today for a little while. I hope by tomorrow you will be able to be up. I am glad today sic that my cold is better. Your loving, Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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White artists have made millions of dollars off music they stole from black artists. I don't blame all the white artists. I'm a huge Stevie Ray Vaughn fan, and he was always very gracious about where he learned his music. But a lot of the time, you'd think the white guys thought it up. Hey, hasn't anyone heard of Muddy Waters?
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I learned early on, stay away from politics, stay away from religion and don't talk about sports. Those three right there will get you in trouble.
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Stationary storage will be as big as the car business long term. The growth rate will probably be several times what it is for the car business.
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The song Dakota was first written in Paris. I was doing a promo trip. It was snowing and the hotel room was really cold and boring and for some reason I just had a go of the guitar and the song came pretty quick.
