Kirk Hammett Quotes
If a guitar is too easy for me to play, it makes me too laid back. I like to battle with my guitar.
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Hedge funds are not especially liquid. Many are 'gated' - meaning there are only small windows when you can withdraw your money. They typically have a high minimum investment and often require investors keep their money in the fund for at least one year.
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I've never liked categories; I've never liked boxes; I've always tried to be unconventional as much as I possibly could.
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First of all, just to get Diner made would have been an achievement in that I got a chance to direct.
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The day we run out of petrol is the day Iran will be free.
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By the law of averages, there has to be life elsewhere. The universe is so huge, and I don't think God would have created this whole big huge cosmos and just say there's only going to be life on Earth, and that's it.
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I'd done a ton of movies here in Hollywood, and I realized that every movie I'd done was somebody's else's work and someone else's vision.
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I fed my ego, but not my soul.
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The moral landscape is the framework I use for thinking about questions of morality and human values in universal terms.
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I never looked at people or singing as commodities.
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There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the history of political power. This is elevated into the history of the world.
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Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.
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I have never admitted that I am more than twenty-nine, or thirty at the most. Twenty-nine when there are pink shades, thirty when there are not.
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Memory is your image of perfection.
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Show me the man who would go to heaven alone if he could, and I will show you one who will never be admitted there.
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In men this blunder still you find,-All think their little set mankind.
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Our lives today are not conducted in linear terms. They are much more quantified; a stream of random events is taking place.
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My enemy said to me, 'Love your enemy.' And I obeyed him and loved myself.
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The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
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There are those who believe we have need of more literature, of a large international publishing house, of a great peace newspaper, or the like. I am rather skeptical about this idea.
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I think that the Internet is going to effect the most profound change on the entertainment industries combined. And we're all gonna be tuning into the most popular Internet show in the world, which will be coming from some place in Des Moines. We're all gonna lose our jobs. We're all gonna be on the Internet trying to find an audience.
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We like people who look good, we like people who elevate our standards, who have things we do not have, it's all about our fantasies. Yes, you can make millions of people dream about somebody who's not good looking, and that's the beauty of cinema, but people don't take the chance that often.
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I met the pianist Barry Harris when I was about fifteen. He would show me changes, which I had no idea existed. I knew about scales, but I didn't think about chords. I was fortunate in that he lived right around the corner so I'd be at his house almost every day and he showed me about playing melodies over chords. After about three years, I could play some gigs. I worked with drummer Roy Brooks and other guys my age at that time, like trumpeter Lonnie Hillyer. Some of the older guys were Paul Chambers, Doug Watkins and Louis Hayes
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If a guitar is too easy for me to play, it makes me too laid back. I like to battle with my guitar.
