Bill Bruford Quotes
Plus I am being hounded by all the fabulous new drummers, Bill Stewart at the head of the pack.
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There are so many steps you have to go through to reach a high level, so you're kind of building your own, I would say, mountain. You have to go piece by piece by piece. When you're young and really ambitious, you want to jump right up. It kind of teaches you a lesson, I would say.
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It's always a live experience - anything that happens around you. It's so easy to just put it to a song.
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When I'm alone, I can sleep crossways in bed without an argument.
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I feel a strong affinity to Ke$ha and Katy Perry and a lot of these women who are really pushing the girl power femme fatale thing. It's fun, and it's unapologetic, and they tell women they can do whatever they want, and that's true, and that's a message that I want to carry, to tell girls they can do whatever they want.
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I don't look like Brad Pitt or Tom Cruise. When you put me on the screen, the women don't want to make love to me, and the men don't want to be me.
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My stand-up is quite good now, people say. It's just like a big conversation each time. Every gig is a rehearsal.
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The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.
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You could take away the singing, and I am fine. But don't take away my gift of writing. It is the best way I can relate and express what I am feeling and what I am going through.
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Criminals gravitate into government positions like natural law.
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Nobody's going to write a book about me, because nobody's going to find anything worth writing a book about.
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If you're not in a major city, many bands don't come your way, and you have to really travel to see them.
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When I'm away from the field, I show a little more emotion and stuff.
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The less people know about 'Paranormal Activity,' the more they enjoy it.
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People think I'm more wild than I am... I like going to theme parks, play sports or just hanging out with my friends.
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I'm going to try to unite all Americans.
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The act of contemplation then creates the thing created.
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But what gave him the most satisfaction was going back through the pages to read about his first story appearing in the Saturday Evening Post. That afternoon he'd bought Bird the largest bag of lemon drops he could find. 'He gives her candy,' she had said, remembering too.
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Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it.
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The New York times' long-standing motto, 'All the News That's Fit to Print,' should be changed to reflect today's reality: 'Manufacturing News to Fit an Ideology.'
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You know it has all the kind of fun stuff. It has the countermeasures - we always talk about the countermeasures because people are like, "What the heck is countermeasures?" You know if I shot a missile at it, flares would pop out of those holes and stop the missile from hitting it.
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I couldn't do 'The Ed Sullivan Show.' Ed said I was a flash in the pan, and he was right.
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As part of Social Security reform, I believe that private savings accounts are a part of it - along the lines that President Bush proposed.
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Trade liberalization can be contagious, and the opening of markets regionally can spark progress multilaterally as well.
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Plus I am being hounded by all the fabulous new drummers, Bill Stewart at the head of the pack.
