Darrell Lance Abbott (Dimebag Darrell) Quotes

I've become more interested in creating a band sound than trying to outshine the other guys.

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• Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

  

  Owen Feltham
  • Change
  • Perfect
  • Perfection

• I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Writing
  • Way
  • Like

• You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.

  

  Ian Fleming
  • Live
  • Death
  • Look

• I loved getting to Chagrin Falls, being by the falls; what a cute place it is.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Place
  • Loved
  • Cute

• And it was then that I realized wow, I'm able to write lyrics and sing and stuff like that.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • Like
  • Write
  • Lyrics

• Any government that has a sincere desire for reform and progress should understand the benefit of objective and constructive criticism.

  

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
  • Desire
  • Government
  • Progress

• I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Life
  • Want
  • You

• My abiding faith in the wisdom of our electorate is what gives me hope.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Hope
  • Faith
  • Wisdom

• Who am I, if I'm not this singer with big high notes? I identify with my voice. But I'm more than just the acrobatics.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • High
  • Voice
  • Notes

• If you're overfishing at the top of the food chain, and acidifying the ocean at the bottom, you're creating a squeeze that could conceivably collapse the whole system.

  

  Carl Safina
  • Food
  • Ocean
  • Creating

• The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • World
  • Believe
  • Truth

• When I was elected, I was the youngest member of the Tennessee congressional delegation; now, I'm one of the oldest. In fact, I have members of my staff who weren't even born when I took office. That tells me it's time for a new chapter.

  

  Bart Gordon
  • Time
  • New
  • Chapter

• I have to prove myself in a lot of ways - as an actor, as a person, as someone who can handle pressure.

  

  Sam Claflin
  • Myself
  • Actor
  • Pressure

• If I wanted to know what a certain future would feel like to me, I would find someone who is already living that future. If I wonder what it's like to become a lawyer or marry a busy executive or eat at a particular restaurant, my best bet is to find people who have actually done these things and see how happy they are.

  

  Daniel Gilbert
  • People
  • Done
  • Happy

• I think people should express themselves more and not just buy what's in. While it can be very beautiful, and it may suit you perfectly, I'm sure it doesn't suit everyone in the same way. I like people who express themselves and are more individualistic.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • People
  • May
  • Beautiful

• We have the American people properly concerned about the future of our country and the world.

  

  Hamilton Jordan
  • People
  • World
  • Country

• The quality of TV, I think, is at an all-time high. The problem with it is the way that we end up consuming it - generally a cable box. A satellite receiver is, to me, nothing more than a glorified VCR.

  

  Eddy Cue
  • Up
  • Time
  • High

• We need to rekindle those values, those strengths as a nation and as a people... And we must do so as one people with one goal.

  

  Kamla Persad-Bissessar
  • People
  • Goal
  • Values

• X-rays revealed that some people were born without a corpus callosum, and they seemed just fine.

  

  Sam Kean
  • People
  • Born
  • Some People

• The band would play on the night off for the local hotel bands and we'd back all the different acts. So I'd been advised by good friends of mine to come back to Hawaii. Oh, I loved Honolulu, playing at a place right on the beach at Waikiki!

  

  Martin Denny
  • Good
  • Different
  • Friends

• What's risky is living your life and never trying for anything and never doing something brave and never getting yourself scared.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Brave

• I like it better that people aren't throwing stuff at my face and trying to fight me on stage. Like in the '80s, it was just aggravating all the time... I have scars from cigars and cigarettes on me, Bic pens, burns from cigarette lighters, all that.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • People
  • Trying
  • Fighting

• I've become more interested in creating a band sound than trying to outshine the other guys.

  

  Darrell Lance Abbott
  • Trying
  • Band