Flea Quotes
About 13-14 years ago, I went back to my alma mater, Fairfax High School, and ran into the music teacher. She invited me to come speak to the kids about the viability of a music career. When I went into the room where I used to play every day in a big orchestra, they had nothing!

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What we do for a living does not matter so much as how we do it. It is the spirit in which we do our work that counts, and that counts through all eternity.
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Like a cyclone, imperialism spins across the globe; militarism crushes peoples and sucks their blood like a vampire.
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If I must choose between healthy and tasty, I go for the second: having only one life to waste, it might as well be a pleasurable one.
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I think mobility is very important, not only to discover opportunities elsewhere but at times, also to appreciate better what your home town has. Allahabad, for instance, has the feel of a small, tightly-knit community where everyone participates.
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And then my chance really happened in 1996 when we added the second flight of the tether satellite.
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People first concern themselves with meeting their basic needs; only afterwards, do they pursue any higher needs.
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Treasure the things about you that make you different and unique.
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One minute you're a slug and the next minute you're a hero, so you don't know what to think.
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In law school, I earned the respect of professors and served on the editorial board of 'The Yale Law Journal.'
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Save yourself some grief. Check with the publicist you hire to see what other books he/she has coming out at the same time as yours.
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I try to be as ignorant about things as I can.
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I learned early on that one of the secrets of campus leadership was the simplest thing of all: speak to people coming down the sidewalk before they speak to you. I would always look ahead and speak to the person coming toward me. If I knew them I would call them by name, but even if I didn't I would still speak to them.
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That's everybody's goal, when they come to the league, is to win a Super Bowl. That's the ultimate goal.
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When I had my television show, 'Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters,' it was my high hope to convert people to country music. It is wonderful and contagious!
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There's no regrets for me.
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After being once in space, I was keen to go back there. But it didn't happen.
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I can remember loving to recruit. I knew I was going to do my best. But traveling and recruiting doesn't appeal to me any more. It's not as much fun as it used to be.
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I had a lousy marriage and I drank too much.
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When we started there was this element of these experiments we were doing where we weren't really sure how the music would play out because the music was all on different players.
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The biggest boss has the clearest desk.
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An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.
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I like so many different kinds of music just because all I did was listen to the radio as a kid.
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If a commodity were in no way useful, - in other words, if it could in no way contribute to our gratification, - it would be destitute of exchangeable value, however scarce it might be, or whatever quantity of labour might be necessary to procure it.
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About 13-14 years ago, I went back to my alma mater, Fairfax High School, and ran into the music teacher. She invited me to come speak to the kids about the viability of a music career. When I went into the room where I used to play every day in a big orchestra, they had nothing!