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"I was never a singer, I can't play any instruments, I had no training. Plus, I was brought up in a time when all the great rock stars were male. I didn't have any template for what I was doing. I did what I did out of frustration and concern."
"Besides me wanting to be an artist, I wanted to be a movie star."
"All of my role models, whether it was the disciples, or John the Baptist or Arthur Rimbaud, slept under the stars."
"I struggled with being in the public eye, losing my anonymity when my star rose quickly in the late 90's. But I need the challenge of showing up and getting up there to spill my guts and connect with my loyal folks."
"No matter how many detours and adjustments it made, the caravan moved toward the same compass point. Once obstacles were overcome, it returned to its course, sighting on a star that indicated the location of the oasis."
"Love is the glue that keeps the stars in place."
"But that moment exists - a moment when all the power of the stars becomes a part of us and enables us to perform miracles."
"A warrior knows that the farthest-flung star in the Universe reveals itself in the things around him."
"From that day on, it was the desert that would be important. She would look to it everyday, and would try to guess which star the boy was following in search of his treasure. She would have to send her kisses on the wind hoping that the wind would touch the boy's face, and would tell him that she was alive."
"Knowledge was always the power that kept the Universe in its place and the stars turning in their orbits."
"One word is too often profaned For me to profane it, One feeling too falsely disdain'd For thee to disdain it. One hope too like dispair For prudence to smother, I can give not what men call love: But wilt thou accept not The worship the heart lifts above And heaven rejects not: The desire of the moth for the star, The devotion of something afar From the sphere of our sorrow?"
"I see the waves upon the shore, Like light dissolved in star-showers, thrown."
"Stars, everywhere. So many stars that I could not for the life me understand how the sky could contain them all yet be so black."
"Mr. Langdon, I did not ask if you believe what man says about God. I asked if you believed in God. There is a difference. Holy scripture is stories...legends and history of man's quest to understand his own need for meaning. I am not asking you to pass judgment on literature. I am asking if you believe in God. When you lie out under the stars, do you sense the divine? Do you feel in your gut that you are staring up at the work of God's hands?"
"You can’t jump for the stars if your feet hurt."
"I'll be yours until the stars fall from the sky, yours until the rivers run dry. In other words, until the day I day."
"A GOOD old-fashioned sex tape pretty much guarantees you a star on Hollywood Boulevard."
"The music I wanted to get into when I went to California, was to, uh, get into, uh, pop, mostly. And the big band era was on at that time. I was doing the "Mona Lisa"s, the "Stardust"s, "Stars Fell On Alabama," all this kind of stuff. And that was my thing that I wanted."
"Every moment of the night Forever changing places And they put out the star-light With the breath from their pale faces"
"But Psyche uplifting her finger said: Sadly this star I mistrust"
