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I have not practiced saxophone since 1980. I mean, not one note. I do not pick it up in my house, and that's the end of it.

I've never really been a traditional country kind of guy. I wanted my music to sound more like the end of the '90s and to have the kind of great music, pop or whatever, that radio will embrace.

I believe that if Israel were to put an end to the settlements in the West Bank tomorrow, as it did in Gaza, there would still be reluctance on the part of the Palestinian Authority to recognize Israel's right to exist as a Jewish secular democracy.

No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone.

That's it. With equal parts regret and relief, the Jane's Addiction experiment is at an end.

If it's coming near the end of a chapter and I'm really getting into it, I tend to get up earlier and earlier, just because I'm excited to get to work.

The acts of the human race on the world's stage have doubtless a coherent unity, but the meaning of the vast tragedy enacted will be visible only to the eye of God, until the end, which will reveal it perhaps to the last man.

On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind... The end of poetry is not an after-effect, not a pleasurable memory of itself, but an immediate, constant and even unpleasant insistence upon itself.

Also, if I did join another show, I'd end up burning my bridges to the show I love most.

We must be part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulance drivers at the bitter end.

In the end, a small section of the crowd, maybe 2,000 to 3,000, turned against me. And that was it. Inside the club they know your best intentions, but the minority shout louder than the rest.

Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone, but that's usually how you end up crying?

All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and social issues, freedom.

The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future.

Movies will end up being this esoteric art form, where only singular people will put films out in a small group of theaters.

It's a tough thing to know that when you're making your album, you're going to end up collaborating with, say, Wal-Mart, on your artwork. That just sucks. And the pressure behind getting the numbers real fast is, to me, dizzying.

Most of the time, songs that I write end up being finished in 30 minutes or less.

Religion did not exist for the saving of souls but for the preservation and welfare of society, and in all that was necessary to this end every man had to take his part, or break with the domestic and political community to which he belonged.

A lecture is an occasion when you numb one end to benefit the other.

I've done a few studio films in the last few years where I feel like I've done good work, and then I only end up in two scenes. That's been very disappointing.

My only feeling about superstition is that it's unlucky to be behind at the end of the game.

Toil without song is like a weary journey without an end.

My to-do list is so long that it doesn't have an end; it has an event horizon.

Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

The African Union has to act in order to put an end to armed conflicts that undermine the continent, to fight against the devastation caused by AIDS and other contagious diseases, to promote sustainable development of its member states.

Ulysses finds himself unchanged, aside from his experience, at the end of his odyssey.

You look at Michael McDonald and people like that; I think they just tried to write music that was true to themselves. That's our bottom line. Whatever people view us as, I think as long as we try to create good music that will win out in the end.

If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.

The African Union has to act in order to put an end to armed conflicts that undermine the continent, to fight against the devastation caused by AIDS and other contagious diseases, to promote sustainable development of its member states.