Phil Lesh Quotes
There was always so much encouragement, to just really take it and run with it, from Deadheads.

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Getting direct consumer revenue through movies or games or other culture products is something that we are very suitable for.
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Western enthusiasm for democracy stops when those opposed to its policies are elected to office.
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The older I get, the more I understand that the only way to say valuable things is to lose your fear of being correct.
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He's going to be around a long, long time, if his body holds up. That's always a concern with a lot of players because of how much they play. A lot of guys can't handle it. But it looks like he can.
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'Iggy' was my dog - he was named after Iggy Pop - and 'Azalea' is the street where I grew up; together, they have the right amount of syllables to make the perfect name.
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If I could travel back in time, I'd bring back the entire Wu-Tang Clan.
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Viking women were able to rule kingdoms, divorce husbands, own land; and Vikings were very progressive in terms of the rights of women.
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Obviously I like pretty girls, but I'm also looking for someone who can take control. I know guys complain about girls telling them what to do, but I think we all kind of enjoy it.
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I've always loved books by the Bronte sisters. I love Jane Austen, too. I'm more influenced by people like her than by pop culture.
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I never went to concerts when I was a kid, so I never knew if what I was doing onstage was right.
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Nothing is impossible in this world. Firm determination, it is said, can move heaven and earth. Things appear far beyond one's power, because one cannot set his heart on any arduous project due to want of strong will.
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I think that a good mountaineer is usually a sensible mountaineer.
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I'm quite surprised that nobody has asked me to do my own line of tweezers. I totally would love to do that. Or, like, mascara. Cara's Mascara!
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The social inefficiency of capitalism is going to clash at some point with the technological innovations capitalism engenders, and it is out of that contradiction that a more efficient way of organising production and distribution and culture will emerge.
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I'll read anything by a guy who spent 40 years in a cave.
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I know it's illegal trespassing, but I don't think it's wrong.
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Then with no throbs of fiery pain,No cold gradations of decay,Death broke at once the vital chain,And freed his soul the nearest way.
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I don't ever put down bands.
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Once you feel like you can safely quit a melody, you are free to explore more important things.
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Politeness is sometimes a great tax upon sincerity.
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It was seriously just a name. They didn’t tell you what to do. They didn’t tell you how they wanted the character to be - nothing. You went in to audition for this character name and that was it. When I started, before I came onto the set, I went to Gene Roddenberry and said: hey, what do you want from this guy? Who is he? And being as smart as he is, he said: don’t listen to what you’ve heard or read or seen in the past, nothing. Just make the character your own. And that’s what I did.
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There was always so much encouragement, to just really take it and run with it, from Deadheads.