Darrell Lance Abbott (Dimebag Darrell) Quotes
I'm not a super blues player, but I was exposed to the Texas blues sound while I was growing up, and that definitely rubbed off on me.
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When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.
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Youth all over the world are very hungry to succeed.
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I get up late, have an espresso, and immediately start work. I try to get roughly caught up on email before I leave the house, then if I need to write anything or review a complex deal, I do that, and then I head to the office and work on my top few priorities for the day. I try to schedule my meetings in the afternoon.
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There are female artists I can look at that I find more in common with than the male artists, because they're blending the pop, dance and theatricality... but currently there aren't a lot of guys who go there.
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You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.
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I only got interested in radio once I talked my way into an internship at NPR's headquarters in Washington, D.C. in 1978, never having heard the network on the air.
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But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
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You don't actually have control of the position people want you to be in. If they say, 'You king of the blacks,' you're king of the blacks - whether you like it or not.
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I can't do choreographed movement. It has to come from my heart... and my pelvis.
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I like cinema. I am very fond of it. But from time to time I feel like having some time on my own.
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No one wants to work with a difficult star. I want to be the nice guy.
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I try and groom myself, be it through fitness or dance.
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One thing that founders always underestimate is how hard it is to recruit.
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I do think that the audience thinks it's funny when you break, but if you do it all the time, it loses something.
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A well-designed 401(k) plan is an enormous competitive edge when recruiting and retaining employees.
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The hired preachers of all sects, creeds, and religions, never do, and never can, teach any thing but what is in conformity with the opinions of those who pay them.
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London has the advantage of one of the most gloomy atmospheres in the world.
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I'm not a crier.
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Sometimes guys are so concerned with being cool and hanging out with their friends. They don't want to seem like the guy that 'has to call his girlfriend.' It's just boys growing up.
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I just kind of opened up and said, 'I feel like a rag doll. I have hair and makeup people coming to my house every day and putting me in new, uncomfortable, weird dresses and expensive shoes, and I just shut down and raise my arms up for them to get the dress on, and pout my lips when they need to put the lipstick on.'
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Because I grew up with this naive expectation of people doing right, I get shocked by every little violation.
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People who are artists professionally are not artists because they want to be artists; they have to be artists. They're compelled to get that creativity out and to share that with others.
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I'm not a super blues player, but I was exposed to the Texas blues sound while I was growing up, and that definitely rubbed off on me.
