Bruce Dickinson Quotes
I never intended to become a professional pilot. But, as I became more curious about aircraft, and, well, not being John Travolta, I realized that the only way I was ever going to fly a jet is if I got a job.
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Some talk shows have become so exploitive and tabloid, I wonder if I can believe some of their guests. Where do they find these guests, and why do they deserve air time?
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At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.
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I'm very passionate about my two Dobermans, Stella and Mr Jonty. I go on and on and on about them, and people have to tell me to shut up before I get out pictures of them.
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I've been doing stand-up since I was 15 years old.
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The stage of the development of the productive forces determines the political and ideological superstructure of society which are crystallized into a system of social organization.
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Courage is found in unlikely places.
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There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.
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Whether it's as the hero of an adventure story, as teacher and friend, as icon on watch, shirt or hat - everyone knows Mickey Mouse.
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The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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Afghanistan has moved forward and Afghanistan will defend itself. And the progress that we have achieved, the Afghan people will not allow it to be put back or reversed.
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I loved to sing in family parties, for my friends and family. That's how I discovered my talent.
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I make work not to give answers but to question things.
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Everything I do now is a first.
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I would love to work on a Bond film.
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I find Indian music very funky. I mean it's very soulful, with their own kind of blues. But it's the only other school on the planet that develops improvisation to the high degree that you find in jazz music. So we have a lot of common ground.
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When we were shooting 'Oz,' my wife was doing 'Beauty and the Beast' on Broadway, singing and dancing. It was an interesting dichotomy in our house.
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You could argue that 'Sweeney Todd' was romantic, if you looked closely at it, but it didn't impart that to its audiences. But it's large, and it's melodramatic, and it's a style I like to work in periodically.
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In the real world, very smart people fail and mediocre people rise. Part of what makes people fail or succeed are skills that have nothing to do with IQ. Also, the idea that intelligence can be gauged by an IQ test is erroneous.
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I don't think there was any overall Reich policy to kill the Jews. If there was, they would have been killed and there would not be now so many millions of survivors. And believe me, I am glad for every survivor that there was.
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To have success in your professional life is not so hard. To succeed as a man is more difficult.
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...the remarkable thing about management is that a manager can go on for years making mistakes that nobody is aware of, which means that management can be a kind of a con job.
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In this I-me society, my job is to get people to buy into something bigger than themselves.
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I never intended to become a professional pilot. But, as I became more curious about aircraft, and, well, not being John Travolta, I realized that the only way I was ever going to fly a jet is if I got a job.
