Paul Kantner Quotes
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Age is just a number. Unless, that is, you live in Hollywood, where there's this notion that if you haven't hit it big by your 20s, you may as well hit the road.
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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
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Opera is the most complete art form. It includes drama, acting, technology (lighting), art (the sets), dance, and the epitome of the human voices. But mostly, go for the glorious music. The arts are crucial to the life of every community.
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Whatever we do from government, we need to do what's best for America. If we do that, that's bringing power back to the people.
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You can keep going on and on about the interactions of people, which makes it a great drama and great event, and you'll always hold that special, but if you're looking at a baseball moment, the feeling you get when you win the World Series by far exceeds anything else in the game that you're able to do.
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The most irresistible charm of youth is its bubbling enthusiasm. Youth sees no darkness ahead - no defile that has no outlet - it forgets that there is such a thing as failure in the world and believes that mankind has been waiting all these centuries for him to come and be the liberator of truth and energy and beauty.
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By the time I got to Bournemouth Art College, I'd been so inspired by Sam Raimi and Robert Rodriguez and their tiny, no-budget films that I decided to do a feature-length version of 'Fistful Of Fingers.'
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My wife never throws anything at me that I can't handle.
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I have 'To Kill A Mockingbird' signed by Harper Lee. That is my prized possession.
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You learn a lot about love before you ever get there. You learn at least as much about love from books as you do from watching your parents.
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As straight Americans we have two choices: we can choose to sit back and enjoy our rights as we have them, or we can realize that it is actually not freedom at all when our friends, family, neighbors, and colleagues do not share these basic rights.
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I've heard this before from people: early 20s kind of screws with your head a little bit because you're transitioning into adulthood and actually becoming an adult with responsibilities and paying bills. So all of a sudden, it's like you're responsible now.
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I've made it my mission to make movies starring African American actors and about the African American experience and put them in the mainstream. They're very universal stories I've told - every movie I've done.
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I have lived a long life, and I am proud that I spend the whole of my life in the service of my people. I am only proud of this and nothing else. I shall continue to serve until my last breath, and when I die, I can say, that every drop of my blood will invigorate India and strengthen it.
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Things that appear on the front page of the newspaper as 'fact' are far more dangerous than the games played by a novelist, and can lead to wars.
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I never thought of myself as a performer or songwriter or singer.
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I drive a Yukon Flex Fuel, and there's baby seats in the back.
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I don't do office work at home.
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But things move in circles: one minute it's the models who are famous, then it's the actresses, then it's the designers.
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To reach a mass audience, you have to offer more than just hostility.
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My idea of professionalism is probably a lot of people's idea of obsessive.
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One by one I drowned all the people I’d been.
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Time and distance from the first and second world wars doesn't seem to lessen their horrors.
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I don't blame it on the Hell's Angels. I blame it on the people who were there.
