Darrell Lance Abbott (Dimebag Darrell) Quotes

On our early demos, I was really frustrated with my recorded sound. I'd tell my dad, 'Dude, I want more 'cut' on my guitar - I want more treble.' And he'd say, 'Now, son, you don't want that. It'll hurt your ears.' But my dad just didn't understand.

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• I had to endure the worst time of all in terms of racial discrimination in Hollywood when I first started out. It was inconcievable to American directors and producers that a Mexican woman could have a lead role.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Time
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• I'm not religious. I was as a child, and like lots of people, I suppose, rapidly became very disillusioned with the whole thing. I also feel that organised religion has caused far more problems than it has solved.

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • People
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• No matter how much money I make, no matter how many hit songs. I still perform like a street performer.

  

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• Considering all the legal hassle child stars can be, I won't be surprised when they are phased out by CGI children voiced by adult actors.

  

  Mara Wilson
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• Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.

  

  Florence King
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• People should know what they want, not just what they don't want.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
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• A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.

  

  Wendell Willkie
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• I hope to continue building my acting career and work more on projects that fulfill my artistic thirst.

  

  Karolina Kurkova
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• When I see things in the world that leap out at me, I want to make use of them in fiction. Maybe every writer does that. It just depends on what you claim or appropriate as yours.

  

  Rachel Kushner
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• I don't understand why there aren't more powerful female directors. I don't have the answers, but I hope that things may start to shift and that studios will employ more women to handle strong and interesting material.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
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• When girls bully, it's very subtle, and you can't define it. At least with boys, the bullying is usually explicit, and you can deal with it. It's psychological with girls.

  

  Natalie Dormer
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• I write the novels that are possible for me to write, not that ones I think will come across in a certain light.

  

  Rachel Kushner
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• A lot of times on tour it's about, 'OK, where am I today? Wow, I'm in Costa Rica. What is their famous dish?' And it's about trying the food, and really experiencing it.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
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• I think God has a sense of humor, and the way my lessons come from God is very funny. I have to laugh at myself even if it's a tough lesson.

  

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  • God
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• I would love to have been a painter in the tradition of the surrealist painters who I admire so much.

  

  J. G. Ballard
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• There are times when I need to dig up the diagram for a type of satellite dish, for instance, but I just can't seem to phrase this need correctly. As a result, I'm inundated by advertising for satellite television and people's online customer reviews of such services when, in fact, I was only trying to figure out what a certain component is called.

  

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• I looked at but was not allowed to touch Ai Weiwei's 'Sunflower Seeds' at the Tate. The film of making them was really moving.

  

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• Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

  

  Immanuel Kant
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• I think it's way harder when you have success, 'cause people tend to not treat you the same or look at you the same because they see the success or the money you make.

  

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• I don't think many people have ever read the report. Who has read 26 volumes of this case? How many read the summary? If you read the summary, it takes a long time.

  

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• Nobody ever lends money to a man with a sense of humor.

  

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• If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it.

  

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• Your beauty is in your sensitivity. Don't let anyone take it from you

  

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• On our early demos, I was really frustrated with my recorded sound. I'd tell my dad, 'Dude, I want more 'cut' on my guitar - I want more treble.' And he'd say, 'Now, son, you don't want that. It'll hurt your ears.' But my dad just didn't understand.

  

  Darrell Lance Abbott
  • Dad
  • Hurt
  • Son