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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My parents were strict. They weren't as strict on me as they were with the others, but my mother didn't want us to get on anyone's nerves... Go to someone else's house and drive their parents crazy. Another thing was they didn't want us to get into a lot of things that a lot of kids - if they're not careful - can slip into.
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The United States military is undoubtedly the world's finest. It's also far and away the most generously funded, with policymakers offering U.S. troops no shortage of opportunities to practice their craft. So why doesn't this great military ever win anything? Or put another way, why in recent decades have those forces been unable to accomplish Washington's stated wartime objectives? Why has the now 15-year-old war on terror failed to result in even a single real success anywhere in the Greater Middle East?
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Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.
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To have my mind racing and my heart beating fast over glorious possibilities is very close to the summit of life experience for me.
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I like what Abba Eban once said during the 1967 war. He said, "When all else fails, men turn to reason."
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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!
