Billy Sheehan Quotes
I didn't follow the standard rules of bass playing, and many musicians on many different instruments who became noteworthy for their unique or particular style did a very similar thing.
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Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
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It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.
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My father's music has always inspired me in many ways... especially to be better at what I do.
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The Japanese version comes with a translation, but that's different from the lyrics, so people could look things up and find a translation of their own if they're interested.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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The Stonewall riots were a key moment for gay people. Throughout modern history, gays had thought of themselves as something like a mental illness or maybe a sin or a crime. Gay liberation allowed us to make the leap to being a 'minority group,' which made life much easier.
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When you give a lot of confidence in people and you don't get it back, you are a bit disappointed, but it's life.
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My hair and my accent are sort of my main assets.
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I think the reason they cast me as the good girls is because they couldn't find any in Hollywood.
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I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
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Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices parted ways.
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It's interesting, the things you learn when you're 21. I learned never to get tattoos in the middle of shooting a movie. Because if you're not Angelina Jolie or Megan Fox, they will fire you.
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When I began we did not really have a lot of First Amendment law. It is really surprising to think of it this way, but a lot of the law - most of the law that relates to the First Amendment freedom of the press in America - is really within living memory.
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It keeps me in touch with younger musicians who are constantly saying, 'Have you heard this new artist, or this new guitar player?' It keeps you reaching.
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My mother reads tarot cards, actually, but I won't let her read mine.
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I love the intimacy of venues like the House of Blues. When everyone is packed in and so close to you, it makes you play differently. It's so much more fun to play because there's so much more high energy in a place like that.
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The whole thing of weight, I guess it's because there is a wider fascination we all have with weight.
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Well, you know, in any novel you would hope that the hero has someone to push back against, and villains - I find the most interesting villains those who do the right things for the wrong reasons, or the wrong things for the right reasons. Either one is interesting. I love the gray area between right and wrong.
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People like me, who care about printing, constitute the tiniest lunatic fringe in the nation.
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I definitely don't feel a sense of jealousy or competition, and that's a really good feeling.
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Everyone has a different opinion; every country has a different way of doing things. But I do believe that we need a regulatory body so that everyone who owns or manages wildlife is subject to inspection and rated on how well they look after the animals and how the communities benefit.
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'Borne,' in a weird way, even though it's a totally different universe, picks up where the 'Southern Reach Trilogy' leaves off, because it's post-apocalyptic.
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Some of the joy in acting is switching it up: being able to do something that's different than what you've been doing.
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I didn't follow the standard rules of bass playing, and many musicians on many different instruments who became noteworthy for their unique or particular style did a very similar thing.
