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"We were just amazed we were putting out a record. We were, and are, still learning. But we've never cared much for professionalism as long as the energy was there. Like our live shows: We're out of tune and use a lot of feedback. That's not on purpose or because we don't care, we're just musically and rhythmically retarded and we play so hard that we can't tune our guitars fast enough."
"In the blues, it just takes so long for us to get recognized."
"As long as our orientation is toward perfection or success, we will never learn about unconditional friendship with ourselves, nor will we find compassion."
"I think that drive to fight the fight day in and day out, I think that can go away. You can lose that. As long as you continue to be consumed and overwhelmed with the desire to get better and find another way and keep competing to figure out what you can do to help make this guy be better than he was a day ago, as long as that's there, I don't agree."
"The judge should not be young, he should have learned to know evil, not from his own soul, but from late and long observation of the nature of evil in others."
"An entire lifetime would not be long enough for you to exhaust the glance of the young harvest-girl."
"Seek to be the purple thread in the long white gown."
"I think a lot of people are projecting their own troubles and fears concerning sexuality onto those around them, and it does result in the perpetuation of a lot of hateful notions. As long as I can remember, I've felt really horrified watching those dynamics play out."
"The problem of synchronicity has puzzled me for a long time, ever since the middle twenties, when I was investigating the phenomena of the collective unconscious and kept on coming across connections which I simply could not explain as chance groupings or "runs." What I found were "coincidences" which were connected so meaningfully that their "chance" concurrence would represent a degree of improbability that would have to be expressed by an astronomical figure."
"I'm a tad paranoid. I think the person in front of me is following me the long way round."
"As long as we fail to face up to the past and deal with it accordingly, the future will smack of corruption."
"You dinna need to understand me, Sassenach," he said quietly. "So long as you love me."
"I been trying to clean up my act with my children for a long time. And I pretty much got them all talking to me now. And they accept me as a humanoid again."
"If the conflict is about the size of Israel, then long and difficult negotiations can eventually resolve the problem. But if the conflict is about the existence of Israel, then serious negotiation is impossible."
"He had long nostril hairs, powerfully intimidating, like an unscheduled nightmare."
"Over the long term, it's hard for a stock to earn a much better return that the business which underlies it earns. If the business earns six percent on capital over forty years and you hold it for that forty years, you're not going to make much different than a six percent return - even if you originally buy it at a huge discount. Conversely, if a business earns eighteen percent on capital over twenty or thirty years, even if you pay an expensive looking price, you'll end up with one hell of a result."
"Over the very long term, history shows that the chances of any business surviving in a manner agreeable to a company's owners are slim at best."
"I am pleased with the exhibition... everything on display was sold for a good price to decent people. It has been a long time since I believed that you could educate public taste."
"Music and herb go together. It's been a long time now I smoke herb. From 1960's, when I first start singing."
"Martial arts have been a part of my life for as long as I can remember."
