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... Ritchie Blackmore was a huge early influence on me, but after that I had to find my own way ... Johann Sebastian Bach was… — Yngwie Malmsteen
... even when I'm touring, I feel like a sideman ... everybody's working together. We get to play longer solos; it's not just "Here's the… — Vince Gill
Vanity is a weakness. I know this. It's a shallow dependence on the exterior self, on how one looks instead of what one is. I… — Dennis Lehane
What does this contradictory pattern mean?one conclusion seems inevitable: when it comes to work, people do not heed the evidence of their senses. They disregard… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
If there is one word that makes creative people different from others, it is the word complexity. Instead of being an individual, they are a… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
The decline of Rome was the natural and inevitable effect of immoderate greatness. Prosperity ripened the principle of decay; the cause of the destruction multiplied… — Edward Gibbon
Instead of a perpetual and perfect measure of the divine will, the fragments of the Koran were produced at the discretion of Mahomet; each revelation… — Edward Gibbon
I would like to have the original ending to my Lord of the Rings instead of the one they released. In my original cut I… — Ralph Bakshi
Instead of inflicting these horrible punishments, it would be far more to the point to provide everyone with some means of livelihood, so that nobody's… — Thomas More
In the first place, most princes apply themselves to the arts of war, in which I have neither ability nor interest, instead of to the… — Thomas More
What sort of world might it have been if Eve had refused the servants offer and had said to him instead, â€œlet me not be… — Elisabeth Elliot
Martin Luther, when he walked in the woods, used to raise his hat to the birds and say, â€˜Good morning, theologiansâ€”you wake and sing, but… — Richard Wurmbrand
The church has lost her testimony. She has no longer anything to say to the world. Her once robust shout of assurance has faded away… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
The idea that this world is a playground instead of a battleground has now been accepted in practice by the vast majority of Christians. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
God delights to increase the faith of His children. We ought, instead of wanting no trials before victory, no exercise for patience, to be willing… — George Muller
You can make fun with Saddam Hussein jokes ... but you can't make fun of, say, the concentration camps. I think my target was not… — Tom Lehrer
I don't know what it is about the french language, it seems to be scared of coming out of the mouth so it comes out… — P.D.Q. Bach
Earth Democracy connects people in circles of care, cooperation, and compassion instead of dividing them through competition and conflict, fear and hatred. — Vandana Shiva
You cannot insert a gene you took from a bacteria into a seed and call it LIFE. You have not created life, instead you have… — Vandana Shiva
The Packers have lots of owners nobody knows instead of one owner who doesnt know squat. — Jim McMahon

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