Kirk Hammett Quotes

Just because you know umpteen billion scales, it doesn't mean you have to use them all in a solo.

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• For me, baseball is about, again, the team winning.

  

  Eddie Murray
  • Team
  • Winning
  • Baseball

• The truth is, there's an information blockade in America, and it must be broken. In order to find crucial facts, numbers and outside perspectives, a person must spend an hour searching and cross-searching on the computer.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Truth
  • America
  • Broken

• The Holocaust survivor who knows Auschwitz through the experience of suffering observes it all from the perspective assigned to him. He keeps silent or gives interviews to the Spielberg Foundation, he accepts the compensation payments promised him after a fifty-year delay, or, if he is prominent, he makes a speech in the Swedish Academy.

  

  Imre Kertesz
  • Experience
  • Suffering
  • Perspective

• I have more free time than a lot of individuals, so, instead of talking, I sometimes write.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Time
  • Free
  • Sometimes

• Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and boxers versus briefs.

  

  Jack Lynch
  • Style
  • Fierce
  • Grammar

• You don't find out who you are unless you work at it.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Work
  • You
  • Find

• I worry that if I enjoy something - like the songs on 'Some Nights' are about wondering about who you are. I'm never quite sure and I'd hate to feel sort of content and get a good sense of who I am because if I know one thing, that's not me. I don't mind not necessarily being happy about it. And that's fine.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Happy

• I'm from Wisconsin so I always feel a little nauseous about begging and trying to trick people into liking me.

  

  Dan Harmon
  • People
  • Feel
  • Trick

• I love the novel because it's like a love affair. You can just fall into it and keep going, and you never know where it's going to take you.

  

  Daniel Alarcon
  • Love
  • Fall
  • For Her

• The hardest battle you’re ever going to fight is the battle to be just you.

  

  Leo Buscaglia

• The roots of education … are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

  

  Aristotle
  • Education
  • Sweet
  • Bitter

• My great-grandfather played organ for silent movies. Talkies in, Gramps out.

  

  Kent Beck
  • Great

• What I hate about Halle Berry is there's always drama around her. It's always fighting, automobile accidents, fistfights, boyfriends fighting ex-husbands for the child.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Hate
  • Fighting
  • Drama

• Pop music is always great for keeping the energy up, but it can get really old, especially after eight hours, just because there aren't that many great pop songs.

  

  Emily Ratajkowski
  • Up
  • Great
  • Music

• There are always things I find difficult - being in crowds, remembering faces. I do like routines. I always travel with someone. My life in Avignon is a very quiet one. I have an apartment that looks over the whole city. I can drop into town, but a lot of the time I write from home. In some respects I still live a very quiet, simple life.

  

  Daniel Tammet
  • Life
  • Time
  • Live

• We grew up in a very strange world, because my mother was up against it all when she had three black children.

  

  Jaye Davidson
  • Up
  • World
  • Children

• So here we are, just two months away from the election, with more and more examples that modern day Jim Crowe laws are alive and well in the state of Florida.

  

  Corrine Brown

• My parents definitely sparked something in me. I'm sure of it. I saw how happy and fulfilled they were, and I knew I wanted the same job.

  

  Marion Cotillard
  • Job
  • Happy
  • Parents

• When I'm with the wife, and we're having a romantic night, I occasionally think about a glass of red wine, but I'll order a sparkling water. I'd like the wine, but it wouldn't end with one glass, so I don't even go there.

  

  Dave Gahan Depeche Mode
  • Night
  • Wife
  • Water

• I think of jazz as being homage through innovation. Don't quote that as a definition, but it comes pretty close.

  

  Kurt Elling
  • Pretty
  • Innovation

• I believe there are a lot of questions today that require expert analysis by various agencies: political agencies, foreign ministries, economic agencies and security agencies. We need to assess everything and understand what we can agree on and what the implications will be both for Japan and for Russia so that both the Russian people and the Japanese people come to the conclusion that these compromise solutions are acceptable and are in our countries' interests.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • People
  • Believe
  • Today

• Just because you know umpteen billion scales, it doesn't mean you have to use them all in a solo.

  

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