Eddie Van Halen Quotes
A guitar is a very personal extension of the person playing it. You have to be emotionally and spiritually connected to your instrument. I'm very brutal on my instruments, but not all the time.
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When you are missing someone, time seems to move slower, and when I'm falling in love with someone, time seems to be moving faster.
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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So most astronauts getting ready to lift off are excited and very anxious and worried about that explosion - because if something goes wrong in the first seconds of launch, there's not very much you can do.
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But every company of the future is going to be in the business of exquisite care - which means quick turnaround time and convenience. To deliver exquisite care, you need an organization that coordinates well and listens well.
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Once you become poor, tired and time-constrained, you become a much better human being.
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Women have to be active listeners and interrupters - but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about.
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I had to let my ego go a long time ago.
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Every idea has its time.
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I did all of California from north to south. I did Florida from north to south. I went to the Midwest. I spent time discovering the culture because I thought I was going to stay in America for only two years. Then I decided to come to New York.
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If you get a guy that can play a couple positions, it helps you out a real lot.
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Lanai at one time grew 98% of the world's pineapples. But the world's pineapples are now grown in two places, Costa Rica and Panama, because no one wants to spend $45 for a pineapple from the United States.
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Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been examining for a long time.
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Eddie Conway is central to my first memories. My parents used to take me to, when it was open, the Baltimore city penitentiary to see Eddie Conway - I was talking to my dad about this recently - from the time I might have been one or two years old. I mean, literally, my first memories are of black men in jail, specifically of Eddie Conway.
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Popping broad beans out of their skins can be therapeutic, but it isn't everybody's favourite waste of time.
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I guess I never had a better experience than working on The Long Riders, and at the same time, I never had a harder time than what I did making Southern Comfort.
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I really hated school. I had the feeling I was losing a lot of time.
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Time has a way of demonstrating that the most stubborn are the most intelligent.
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You see, I have many friends in the Hindi film industry.
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It is expected that a children's story will raise a difficulty and then resolve it: increasingly, this resolution is so prompt and so resounding that one forgets what exactly the difficulty was.
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A monster, which the Blatant beast men call, A dreadfull feend of gods and men ydrad.
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What I would like with the Internet is to have it go faster.
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Agnostics talk cheerfully of man's search for God but they might as well talk about the mouse's search for the cat.
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The last scene in 'Moonlight,' that's one of the most extraordinary things I've ever seen on film in my lifetime. You see two men showing such tenderness towards each other. And it's bold; it's deep. It's complex. It's profound.
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A guitar is a very personal extension of the person playing it. You have to be emotionally and spiritually connected to your instrument. I'm very brutal on my instruments, but not all the time.
