I have been as a pilot involved in the Gulf War. And then, in the no-fly zone. ~Philippe Perrin
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I'm a songwriter first. ~Carole King
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I never really thought about becoming a professional musician. ~John Mayall
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Trade is the natural enemy of all violent passions because it loves moderation, delights in compromise an is most careful to avoid anger. ~Alexis de Tocqueville
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I love performing and having people hear my music more that anything. ~Britney Spears
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He who hears music feels his solitude. ~French Proverb
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We should go into His presence as a child goes to his father. We do it with reverence and godly fear, of course, but we should go with a childlike confidence and simplicity. ~David Lloyd Jones
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I try to write like the writers I admire, I rip them off in form. It comes from George Strait and Merle Haggard records, and country music in general is really good at that, the twisted phrase. So I'm always looking for that angle in my own work. ~Brad Paisley
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Was awakened in the night to a strain of music dying away, passing travellers singing. My being was so expanded and infinitely and divinely related for a brief season that I saw how unexhausted, how almost wholly unimproved, was man's capacity for a divine life. When I remembered what a narrow and finite life I should anon awake to! ~Henry David Thoreau
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I'm an untrained musician. Untrained musicians don't really have any music theory, they don't have a lot of rules. We break the rules, but it's mostly because we don't know what the rules are. It's easy for us to go to certain places, so I'm not surprised that a lot of people were amused by my songwriting style. ~Frank Black
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Let me tell you something. For the first time in my adult life, I am proud of my country because it feels like hope is finally making a comeback. ~Michelle Obama
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I hope you will judge yourselves not on your professional accomplishments alone, but also on how well you have addressed the world's deepest inequities... on how well you treated people a world away who have nothing in common with you but your humanity. ~Bill Gates
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I have total respect for anyone who discovers a band like Snow Patrol. I would be hopeless at signing a rock band, or anything alternative, cause I don't know what that audience are into and I don't particularly like that kind of music. ~Simon Cowell
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One may go a long way after one is tired. ~French Proverb
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That is a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion. ~William Shakespeare
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Maine out of season is unmistakably a great destination; hospitable, good humored, plenty of elbow room, short days, dark nights of crackling ice crystals. ~Paul Theroux
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Empathy is even better than talking in one language. ~Rumi
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The fraud is not complete unless it be practised upon clever and cunning persons. ~Arabic Proverb
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The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places, but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater. ~J.R.R. Tolkien
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A scholar's heart is a dark well in which are buried many aborted feelings that rise to the surface as arguments. ~Natalie Clifford Barney
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Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it is dark. ~Zen Proverb
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If you represent the Earth's lifetime by a single year, say from January when it was made to December, the 21st-century would be a quarter of a second in June; a tiny fraction of the year. But even in this concertinaed cosmic perspective, our century is very, very special; the first when humans can change themselves and their home planet. ~Martin Rees
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For mercy has a human heart; pity, a human face; and love, the human form divine, and peace, the human dress. ~William Blake
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Ring out the false, ring in the true. ~Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Hopes are always accompanied by fears, and, in scientific research, the fears are liable to become dominant. ~Paul Dirac
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