Kirk Hammett Quotes

Jeff Beck is one of my heroes and has been since I first picked up a guitar.

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• Rowing provided a place to go, a community where people cared about what I did and what I achieved.

  

  Nancy Greene
  • People
  • Community
  • Place

• It's a great challenge to get to play a real-life character. Every actor would love to get a chance, at least once in his life, to play a real-life character.

  

  Madhur Mittal
  • Life
  • Challenge
  • Chance

• I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.

  

  Oleg Cassini
  • Life
  • Hurt
  • Dog

• In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.

  

  Zhu Zhu
  • Game
  • Know
  • Pool

• In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Different
  • Hate
  • Matter

• The country needs more than one-party dominance, as much as I believe the Democratic Party is the party for the middle class... We need to have a marketplace of ideas.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Believe
  • Country
  • Party

• The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Country
  • Done
  • History

• I have had wrinkles on my forehead and my smile line since I was a kid. I see them in my own kids. I know what they're going to look like. So it's kind of like that's my personality. I feel the older you get, too, the more confident you become just in your own skin.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Kids
  • Kind
  • Personality

• Faith is personal if it's to be real.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Real
  • Faith
  • Personal

• If you want to put out a million CDs and sell them and get them played on the radio, and even videos, or whatever, if that still exists, that kind of muscle can only come from a label like Columbia.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Want
  • Kind
  • Radio

• It doesn't have to be a mountain you have to be climbing. I hope to change people's opinion about Saudi in general and Saudi women and Saudi women's opinion about themselves. I really hope they can step out of their comfort zone and just dream: try to push your limits.

  

  Raha Moharrak
  • People
  • Women
  • Hope

• You learn something out of everything, and you come to realize more than ever that we're all here for a certain space of time, and, and then it's going to be over, and you better make this count.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Time
  • Space
  • Learn

• I don't accept gifts from perfect strangers - but then, nobody's perfect.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Perfect
  • Accept
  • Strangers

• I think most people have creative ideas and have very strange, unorthodox impulses of things that they can do with their lives. I've had many of these over the years, but I decided the more important question was, 'When did I start calling this art?'

  

  Vik Muniz
  • People
  • Important
  • Art

• I made a commitment to myself; that I wanted to be an actress, and I wanted to do films that make a difference. It has to move people.

  

  Laura Dern
  • People
  • Myself
  • Commitment

• My retirement is both voluntary and involuntary. One reason, and this is voluntary, is the impact of television. All old movies are turning up on television, and frankly, making pictures doesn't interest me anymore. Another reason is that the film industry is in a declining state.

  

  Randolph Scott
  • Reason
  • Interest
  • Impact

• I have to recognize that my voice is attached to my body, which gets tired.

  

  Verite
  • Body
  • Voice
  • Tired

• A goal is a dream with a deadline.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Dream
  • Deadline
  • Goat

• I've done everything I wanted to do, even if I have had to pay a very high price - which has been the case most of the time.

  

  Paulo Coelho
  • Time
  • Done
  • High

• A diva is someone who is a perfectionist, who does her best in her craft.

  

  Patti LaBelle

• For me it was sort of career suicide to work in color, but I did it because I perceived myself from an early stage to be interested in seasonality - the changing of the seasons - that's what I deeply loved.

  

  Joel Sternfeld
  • Work
  • Career
  • Color

• Whiplash' was just a lucky kind of convergence of events in that I'd been trying to get a bigger project off the ground with no success for a while, and then finally, out of frustration, I just wrote this leaner, meaner, personal script about my experiences as a jazz drummer, and that's the one that wound up getting made.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Success

• It's easy for people to grow up in our society believing that certain lifestyles are risk free when they certainly are not.

  

  Bill James
  • People
  • Up
  • Society

• Jeff Beck is one of my heroes and has been since I first picked up a guitar.

  

  Kirk Hammett Metallica
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