Paul Kantner Quotes
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I've basically worked as a journalist and a writer.
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In the back of my mind, I can never forget this could be gone tomorrow - and at this point I think the odds are against me... the chances of succeeding in this business are slim to none; there's only a handful of people that have long careers. You have to put in the work, you can never be satisfied, never take it for granted.
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I was raised in Harlem. I never found a book that took place in Harlem. I never had a church like mine in a book. I never had people like the people I knew. People who could not find their lives in books and celebrated felt bad about themselves. I needed to write to include the lives of these young people.
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I have a really great show jacket from Lavalliere that's really well made, and I have a great pair of Gucci jodhpurs, which is hilarious.
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If we're going to go really deep, we're all trying to live forever. My music is my way of doing that.
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The idea of the European community is never face a war again.
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There are always new places to go fishing. For any fisherman, there's always a new place, always a new horizon.
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Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.
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One night I went to see Bobby at the Flamingo. Because he was my hero, I would visit him for inspiration.
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Be strong, believe in freedom and in God, love yourself, understand your sexuality, have a sense of humor, masturbate, don't judge people by their religion, color or sexual habits, love life and your family.
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I'm not interested in a film about deceit anymore. I think I was always invested in deceit on some level. But it no longer compels me the way it did for so many years.
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I love the simple poetry of theater, where you can stand in a spotlight on a stage and wrap a coat around you, and say, 'It was 1860 and it was winter...'
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By thinking through the grilling process while still in the kitchen, you can easily gather all of the items that you might need and conveniently carry them to the outdoors area.
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My gut feelings and my faith tell me that until God shuts a door, no human can shut it.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
Your soul either feels lifted by something that you read, or it feels squashed by it.
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Everybody always wants to rebel against their parents' music, but nobody listened to music louder than my dad.
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Even the holy men who lived before the coming of Christ understood that God had in mind plans of peace for the human race.
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'Alien' is one of my all-time favorite horror films - that has a great monster.
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The first thing the world does to a genius is to make him lose all his youth.
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A vocation is the backbone of life.
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In my early teens, science fiction and fantasy had an almost-total hold over my imagination. Their outcast status was part of their appeal.
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I had an all right high school, even though I hated school. I wasn't massively popular, but I was okay. But I wouldn't want to do it again.
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The private trader has a greater sense of responsibility than civil servants, who get paid at the end of each month and only once in a while think of the nation or their own responsibility.
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You couldn't have fed the '50s into a computer and come out with the '60s.
