Mark Lawrenson Quotes
My iPod's unbelievable. Seriously. The kids have put most of the music on it, but there's a complete mix of '80s rubbish and current day stuff.
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America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.
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As far as female vocalists, I love Heart, Joan Jett, Courtney Love, Laura Branigan, Linda Ronstadt, Barbra Streisand - or going back to when I was a child, Aileen Quinn, the original Annie.
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I always think it's because of you know hard work, hard training. And if Susie's training hard, you know, why can't I train hard to get a world record. I'm doing the same thing.
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People often try to disguise televisions. I always think that makes it worse. It is what it is!
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Calling it off comes easy enough if you haven't told the girl you are smitten with her.
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Wal-mart... do they like make walls there?
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entity and are seldom thought to be important enough for serious scholarly consideration.
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When you live in L.A., it is easy to stay fit, as the weather is amazing.
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I did absolutely grow up in a world surrounded by people who were always performing and being flamboyant.
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Now, I guess, people want stars. People are trying to invent stars.
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What we need is an electronic encyclopedia of life, with one page for each species. On each page is given everything known about that species.
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Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you.
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Anywhere in life, for girls there's pressure to keep your weight and to keep yourself feeling and looking good.
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Love is a credulous thing.
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I haven't been hit since Leon Spinks hit me in '92.
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It is tough to say what has influenced me the most because I know that Mozart makes me think better, but you cannot beat Dave Matthews for feeling good!
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It's like the old rule-if you introduce a gun into the first act of a play, it's going to be used in the third act. So if you do a movie about criminals, you have to accept there's going to be Some action.
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If people like Edison had waited to make every - or Ben Franklin or some of those people had waited to solve every problem on Earth before they did their research or before they were curious about doing something new, we'd never have made a lot of the progress we have.
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Generally, cars were not built to sit on dealer lots. It encourages the wrong kind of behavior in the whole system.
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Once I made up my mind that music was what I wanted to do, I never looked back.
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I know no other way to associate with great tasks than as play: as a sign of greatness, this is an essential presupposition.
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I just thought it made sense to call a book 'Not Garbage,' even though the majority of it was going to be the scraps from people's studios; like newspaper clippings, weird drawings and stuff they might not necessarily show as artists.
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My iPod's unbelievable. Seriously. The kids have put most of the music on it, but there's a complete mix of '80s rubbish and current day stuff.
