Bruce Dickinson Quotes
My son is in a band, and he's a singer, and his vocals... they're screaming-growling stuff... and he's got a pretty reasonable voice. Yet he practices really hard to get the screaming-growling thing without losing that voice every five minutes. So I'm, like, 'Hats off to you.'
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Good comedy is ageless.
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A lot of time mistakes are very interesting - you look for the behaviour that's not the one you expect.
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Believing a person deserves a defence is not the same as doing anything in your power to get him off scot-free.
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You can choose not to sit on the fence. You can choose not to criticise. You must stand as guard at the door of your own mind and choose to be positive.
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Failure, it is thought, is what sells, and what people want to hear and read about. I am not so sure.
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Paul is a very creative artist but I'm more that thorough, meticulous, disciplined nut.
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I'm pretty gross. When I talk I can be gross and crude.
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If I had to choose between the band or the friendships, I'd choose the friendships at this point.
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Healthy is in the eye of the beholder.
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My son is in a band, and he's a singer, and his vocals... they're screaming-growling stuff... and he's got a pretty reasonable voice. Yet he practices really hard to get the screaming-growling thing without losing that voice every five minutes. So I'm, like, 'Hats off to you.'
