Paul Kantner Quotes
You can't just sit around and make protest albums all your life; eventually it comes to the point where you have to do something.
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What happens also is that a lot of those people and reporters who vote for Hall of Famers, some of the people who were around when Ray Guy was around, are deceased. And some of the reporters don't remember Ray Guy. He should have been in the Hall of Fame 15 years ago.
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One rose says more than the dozen.
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I sometimes look around that studio in the middle of commercials and think, 'Really?'
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the more stubbornly they defend their error.
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To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
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A lot of children remember seeing cartoons, 'Pinocchio' or 'Bambi' or something that breaks their heart. I remember seeing 'The Blue Angel' and it breaking my heart. It was the first time I realised there was an adult world - that adults could damage each other or destroy each other emotionally.
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I remember moving out to L.A. straight after college and just starting to try to write scripts and trying to get stuff off the ground.
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There is a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.
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A lot of people have told me they have mothers like my mother. I seriously doubt it.
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I don't want to set the world up for surprises.
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You know how you put peanut butter on a piece of bread and the bread falls - it never falls on the bread side down, it always falls peanut butter side down. That's because of gravity.
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The local music community here was dying for a place to record, so we started doing acoustic, folk and bluegrass and then did rock projects for other bands, as well as for my son Tal and my own work.
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Everyone is just nicer to prettier people.
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And it also became clear that these conditions of inequality and historical injustice have given rise to a feeling of hate in the world - a deeply felt hate that cannot easily be overcome with a few good words.
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A laugh is a terrible weapon.
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Whoever has lost a fight in the UFC and hasn't wanted to fight that guy the next day shouldn't be in the sport.
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I would say issues around human rights - either you're going to take a hard stance, or you're not. You can't borrow money from China the way the U.S. has done and then turn around and say, 'But you've got a human-rights problem.' You can't be half pregnant.
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Opera once was an important social instrument - especially in Italy. With Rossini and Verdi, people were listening to opera together and having the same catharsis with the same story, the same moral dilemmas. They were holding hands in the darkness. That has gone. Now perhaps they are holding hands watching television.
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Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience.
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I'll do a little prayer here and there if I feel the need to.
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I don't put pressure on myself. I just compete.
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You can't just sit around and make protest albums all your life; eventually it comes to the point where you have to do something.
