Bill Toomey Quotes
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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Chicken and horse meat are the best foods for weightlifters, and good food is important.
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There is no one true church.
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I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.
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We need to do more to conserve fuel or face tougher choices such as steep price increase or even quantitative restrictions.
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I believe that, too, it's hard to believe that anybody could not believe that.
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In politics, religion and other areas of culture, people disagree on the worth of competing ideas. There is no equivalent to the scientific method that can determine in a robust way which ideas match the real world, and which ones can be ruled out. So conflicting ideologies persist indefinitely.
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I have never been accepted. I'll never make the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They're never going to let me in.
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Sometimes if you expose your vulnerability, someone else will feel comforted. It's like we're all in this boat together.
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Let us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways. When the fruit is ripe, it falls.
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The course of development
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Sacred religion! mother of form and fear.
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Rubberband man, wide as the teleband9 on my right, .45 in my otha hand
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Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the management of our lives to kings, priests, politicians, generals, and county commissioners.
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'And when a strong man is sweet, even Goddesses look down from Mount Olympus.'
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I grew up in the Valley, and I didn't know any of our neighbors. I think when you grow up like that, there's always sort of a fantasy of a place where everybody knew each other, and you had that safe sort of feeling.
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This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one.
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..I believe it is a big mistake to think that money is the only way to compensate a person for his work. People need money, but they also want to be happy in their work and proud of it.
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It's not enough for me to cover theater, I have to throw myself around every other art form, and do so thoroughly and relentlessly.
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You perform for a different audience each night. People who don't understand just think that you go out there every night and do the same thing, but you don't - you have to find out who they are and give it to them.
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Honestly, just all the love and respect from the fans, that's always the biggest thing that puts a smile on my face.
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Most men somewhere in their psyche are still dragging women around by their hair. It's terrible. I have two daughters, but even before my kids were born I always thought that it was terrible.
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One of the key elements is the ability to be honest with yourself.
