Kirk Hammett Quotes
After months of playing air guitar to 'Free Bird', what really got me into guitar was watching a documentary about Jimi Hendrix and picking up the Woodstock soundtrack. Listening to his version of 'Star Spangled Banner' and 'Purple Haze.' My brother played acoustic guitar and, idolising him, I thought, 'I'm going to get a guitar.'
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Just be patient. Let the game come to you. Don't rush. Be quick, but don't hurry.
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When the depths are upheld by the Holy Spirit, then the reaction is Christian.
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What I want to give in the theatre is beauty, that's what I want to give.
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If people who cherish freedom, who know the importance of mutual respect and are aware of the imperative necessity to establish a constructive and critical debate, if these people are not ready to speak out, to be more committed and visible, then we can expect sad, painful tomorrows. The choice is ours.
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It was wrongly assumed that I wished to become some sort of leader among gay activists, whereas in reality I was happier to be a foot soldier.
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I hate competition.
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In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.
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There is nothing like singing a song that 20,000 people know and are singing back to you.
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I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.
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Because there is something helpless and weak and innocent - something like an infant - deep inside us all that really suffers in ways we would never permit an insect to suffer.
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In Australia, I grew up watching 'The Mickey Mouse Club,' my son grew up watching 'Sesame Street,' my grandson's growing up watching 'Dora The Explorer.' So we are sort of saturated with American culture from the day we're born, and to those of those who do have an ear for it, it's second nature.
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I go light on breakfast. Sometimes it's a yogurt, but a lot of times it's leftovers from one of my wife's dinners.
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I don't know why I'm suddenly playing nasty people. It is very fun, though, and it isn't real, at the end of the day.
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We can learn from IBM's successful history that you don't have to have the best product to become number one. You don't even have to have a good product.
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The Holocaust movie is almost a genre in itself these days.
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The problem with working under an outside label is that your music never seems to reach the right people.
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In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
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When it gets down to it, basketball is basketball.
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It's nice if people can finally loosen up a little bit and just go out laugh at silliness. I mean, people take themselves way too seriously sometimes.
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There is no waste in functioning natural ecosystems. All organisms, dead or alive, are potential sources of food for other organisms. A caterpillar eats a leaf; a robin eats the caterpillar; a hawk eats the robin. When the plant, caterpillar, robin, and hawk die, they are in turn consumed by decomposers.
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When preaching is done right, it can change lives. When it's done badly, my failure goes beyond the merely human.
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Would we be so enamored with dystopian fiction if we lived in a culture where violent death was a major concern? It wouldn't be escapism.
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If you want to know how old you look, just walk into a French cafe. It's like a public referendum on your face.
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After months of playing air guitar to 'Free Bird', what really got me into guitar was watching a documentary about Jimi Hendrix and picking up the Woodstock soundtrack. Listening to his version of 'Star Spangled Banner' and 'Purple Haze.' My brother played acoustic guitar and, idolising him, I thought, 'I'm going to get a guitar.'
