Eddie Van Halen Quotes
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Lives have been altered in fundamental ways, and later, after they acquire a more complete understanding of what goals are actually attainable, many are left facing a lot of pain and frustration. And yet, there's no culture of complaint.
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We can no longer apply the classic criteria to clearly determine whether and when we should use military force. We are waging war in Afghanistan, for example, but it's an asymmetrical war where the enemies are criminals instead of soldiers.
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As a reader, coming to my reading as a writer immersed in fairytales, I can't help but notice in so many stories, plays, poems that I read, the sort of breadcrumbs of fairytale techniques, so I'm very excited when I notice that.
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The main thing I've learned is that we all have to learn to work with - and appreciate - the brain we've been given, and not waste time wishing things were easier.
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I would rather lose in a cause that I know some day will triumph than to triumph in a cause that I know some day will fail.
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What I like to call 'journalism of depth' is the media that regards the collective conscience of the masses to be its point of departure. It is the media that believes, as a matter of principle, in the potential capabilities of the people and respects their choices.
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At school, I always felt the art room was the place where you could sit and talk. It was a place of solace. I wasn't the best artist at school by a long shot; it was more the understanding and the support that came from that room.
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I toured a lot in the U.K. and Europe solo for a lack of funds, really. I left people I'd been playing with for years at home, just because I couldn't afford it.
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If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater.
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By far, the best moment of my big league career was when I caught the last out at the World Series.
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I respect the view of a rating agency, but I do not make a budget for the rating agency. I make a budget for the people of India.
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The whole character of Justin and the club life he lives - I have no experience with it. It's really foreign to me, which is annoying, but that's just how it is.
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You want to read a book? That requires introspection. It requires time away from people and time away from the constant need to communicate and to connect.
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There's not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.
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I would like to be a legend, everyone wants to be a legend.
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I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.
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The Longs event was the first LPGA event that I played in 8 years ago.
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Berlin has traditionally backed a rules-based eurozone in which every member state is responsible for its own finances, including bank bailouts, with political union limited to a fiscal overlord's possessing veto power over national budgets that violate the rules.
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It is certain that if you would have the whole secret of a people, you must enter into the intimacy of their religion.
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When I started off in England, HMV or Tower Records would come to meetings and be, like, 'We just don't know what this genre is.' I don't really fit in between Rihanna and Beyonce.
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Was it your strategy to just take as much punishment as you could and then hope he would fall down?
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I want any kid who listens to my music to see that I am confident with all elements of my personality that I can't change.
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I mean when the play was on in New York I was starting to get film offers coming through, and since the film's come out I get offered more than I used to, but it happens incrementally.
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Everything comes to me while I'm sitting on the pot.
