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It is the most delightful thing that ever happens to me, when I hear something coming out of my guitar and out of my mouth that wasn't there before. ↗

— James Taylor

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It's hard to find a way forward. When you're 18 it happens in huge chunks every day, but after 20 years, growth is much more costly. ↗

— James Taylor

#chunks #costly #day #every #every day

Also the fact that anything he does is seen and heard by the entire country, not just his actual audience or those who live in the region he happens to be in. ↗

— Robert Teeter

#also #anything #audience #country #does

If you call attention to yourself at the expense of the song, that's the cardinal sin. ↗

— Benmont Tench

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Why are we born? We're born eventually to die, of course. But what happens between the time we're born and we die? We're born to live. One is a realist if one hopes. ↗

— Studs Terkel

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But once you become active in something, something happens to you. You get excited and suddenly you realize you count. ↗

— Studs Terkel

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That's why I wrote this book: to show how these people can imbue us with hope. I read somewhere that when a person takes part in community action, his health improves. Something happens to him or to her biologically. It's like a tonic. ↗

— Studs Terkel

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It is usually expensive and lonely to be principled. ↗

— Paul Theroux

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We won't really know what will happen until it happens. ↗

— Helen Thomas

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I don't think that the permanence of the individual human soul is an indispensable part of religious thought. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

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