Darrell Lance Abbott (Dimebag Darrell) Quotes

Man, don't get me started on Pat Travers. That dude writes killer blues rock and roll riffs.

Darrell Lance Abbott

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• The virtues of the blockchain is that it would be that it's peer-to-peer settlement - no centralized settlement, no manipulation... And most importantly, there's nothing to capture. It's consensus based. It's stateless.

  

  Patrick M. Byrne
  • Manipulation
  • Blockchain

• I will not contest my parliamentary seat in a sad election that will not produce a Parliament capable of endorsing a realistic reform agenda for Greece.

  

  Yanis Varoufakis
  • Sad
  • Election
  • Capable

• I don't do fake. That's the first thing you should know about me. I'm not one to put on airs or change my demeanor depending on where I am or who I am talking to.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Change
  • Talking
  • Fake

• Whether I sound like Sammy or not is purely coincidence. You have got to hand it to him, he sings his ass off. There is no moss on that stone.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • Hand
  • Sound
  • Stone

• I would ask my mother to show me how to walk - and she did show me. That's why I think it's funny when people say, 'Did so-and-so teach you how to walk?' And I always say, 'You must be talking about my mother, because it was my mother who taught me how to walk.'

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • People
  • Why
  • She

• Change is a continuous process. You cannot assess it with the static yardstick of a limited time frame. When a seed is sown into the ground, you cannot immediately see the plant. You have to be patient. With time, it grows into a large tree. And then the flowers bloom, and only then can the fruits be plucked.

  

  Mamata Banerjee
  • Time
  • Change
  • Tree

• Every time we moved on, I joined a different class in a different school with different girls until, aged 13, my father had taken the decision to pull me out of school altogether. Everything I needed, he reasoned, could be found within the rich language of Shakespeare's plays at which, by then, I was something of an old hand.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Time
  • Different
  • School

• I thought art was dead rabbits hanging by their feet on a wall. I went to Italy and saw all the religious paintings, and they didn't move me all that much. Then someone invited me to see this van Gogh exhibit at the Rosenberg Gallery in San Francisco.

  

  Irving Stone
  • Art
  • Religious
  • Thought

• Always the notorious red-light district of sports, boxing today is as troubled as it was even in the days when the Mob called the shots. There are too many lawsuits and too few heroes. Absurd mismatches and fraudulent rankings by unaccountable offshore sanctioning bodies have disgusted fans.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • Today
  • Light
  • Sports

• This is very intriguing to think we should audit the Fed, but I discovered that probably if they audited the Fed, it would get a clean bill because it's undoubtedly doing exactly what it's supposed to do according to the law.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • Think
  • Law
  • Doing

• My childhood was marked by a tension between privilege on the one hand and emotional dysfunction on the other.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Hand
  • Emotional
  • Childhood

• I think when I first started out making music here in Los Angeles, a lot of people were really curious about my ethnicity, and you know, whatever questions they had, I'd be more than happy to answer them.

  

  Yuna
  • People
  • Music
  • Happy

• Dan Rather and I just aren't especially chummy.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Just
  • Rather
  • Dan

• I'd never been around or seen a black showrunner, and in some ways you wish that it wasn't a big deal.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Black
  • You
  • Wish

• Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • Fight
  • Same

• I converted Dec. 31, 1999. It was a Friday. That was my second time going to the mosque. The woman who is my wife now... was basically raised Muslim - and she was at that point where she was deciding or trying to come to terms with her own relationship with Islam and how to embrace that for herself.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Time
  • Trying
  • She

• Filmmaking is such a collaborative piece of art that you can't look to one person - you couldn't look to me, you couldn't say, 'Because Vin's in it, it's this or that...' It's really all of us coming together for that period of time to try and make magic.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Time
  • Art
  • Together

• I don't bring expectations to any of my books. I don't tell people what to do. I want to invite them in.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • People
  • Want
  • Expectations

• The worst thing is when a guy just looks awkward. It's not attractive.

  

  Rita Ora
  • Guy

• I've been a storyteller all my life. When I was in high school, I used to amuse myself by driving through the woods at night and see how long it would be before I scared the pants off my friends - and if I could do it before I scared myself.

  

  Patricia Briggs
  • Life
  • Long
  • School

• She hath wasted with fire thine high places,She hath hidden and marred and made sadThe fair limbs of the Loves, the fair facesOf gods that were goodly and glad.She slays, and her hands are not bloody;She moves as a moon in the wane,White-robed, and thy raiment is ruddy,Our Lady of Pain.

  

  Algernon Charles Swinburne
  • She
  • High
  • Pain

• If you want to be a rock star or just be famous, then run down the street naked, you'll make the news or something. But if you want music to be your livelihood, then play, play, play and play! And eventually you'll get to where you want to be.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Music
  • Rock
  • Star

• Vamps who are dying, or think they are, give a piercing, eardrum-bursting shriek, like the love child of a screech owl and a mountain lion on crystal meth, amplified like a seventies rock band.

  

  Faith Hunter
  • Band
  • Rock
  • Dying

• Man, don't get me started on Pat Travers. That dude writes killer blues rock and roll riffs.

  

  Darrell Lance Abbott
  • Rock