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Jeff Buckley Quotes

I sacrificed my anonymity for my father, whereas he sacrificed me for his fame.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: November 17, 1966 - May 29, 1997

Topics

Father Me Fame Anonymity He His

What people can excel our Northern and New England brethren in skill, invention, activity, energy, perseverance, and enterprise?

John C. Calhoun

Perseverance People Energy New Skill

Population growth and development place additional stress on the Nation's water infrastructure and its ability to sustain hard-won water quality gains.

Growth Water Quality Stress Place

Success is overwhelming.

Jennifer Holliday

Success Success Is Overwhelming

Fiction is about intimacy with characters, events, places.

Places Intimacy Events Fiction About

In academia, I discovered that issues and insights, commonplace among the scholars, are viewed as highly controversial and even as 'heresy' in the churches.

John Shelby Spong

Controversial Even Scholars Issues

Viewed from a holistic ecological perspective, some meat - such as conscientiously hunted animals - involves less suffering and environmental damage than arable agriculture, while both of these are significantly less harmful than indiscriminately purchasing meat on the market.

Tristram Stuart

Perspective Suffering Environmental

Your parents want to think they have a healthy, happy family.

Family Happy Parents Think Healthy

Almost every college playwright or sketch or improv comedian was sort of aware of Christopher Durang - even kids in high school. His short plays were so accessible to younger people and I think that was inspirational to me.

Inspirational School People College

I don't like to talk too much about my music; I like people to just experience it and not worry what I have to say.

Music Experience People Worry Say

The world sometimes feels like an insane asylum. You can decide whether you want to be an inmate or pick up your visitor's badge. You can be in the world but not engage in the melodrama of it; you can become a spiritual being having a human experience thoroughly and fully.

Experience Spiritual World You Want

The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions.

Claude Levi-Strauss

Questions Person Right Answers Who

There is a sort of genre of optimistic science fiction that I like, and I don't think there is enough of. One of my favourites is a short story by Arthur C. Clarke, 'The City and the Stars.' It's set in this far future on Earth in this somewhat static society and trying to break out.

Stars Future Science City Society

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