Eddie Van Halen Quotes

I don't really know what inspires me to write the music I do, but usually, the music will set the tone for the lyrics.

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• To forgive oneself? No, that doesn't work: we have to be forgiven. But we can only believe this is possible if we ourselves can forgive.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
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• I don't try to sugarcoat things, but I also think my books make positive statements about the people and values in small-town America.

  

  Tawni O'Dell
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• I went from living in the Dominican Republic - every day, my mom and I would cook, or we'd go hang out with the kids - to flying a private jet to Chicago with Zac Efron and Dennis Quaid. People had champagne, and they were going to these amazing restaurants. It was a culture shock. It's important, I think, to have that. To see both sides.

  

  Maika Monroe
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• My interest in magic was kindled by Steve Martin, the comedian I'd gone to high school with.

  

  Gary McCord
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• I will not contest my parliamentary seat in a sad election that will not produce a Parliament capable of endorsing a realistic reform agenda for Greece.

  

  Yanis Varoufakis
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• I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.

  

  Dan Fogler
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• Sometimes I play cricket, and I play badminton.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
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• The people don't run the system; the people are victims of the system. The people choose the leaders thinking that they will help them. But when they turn around, there is no help.

  

  Ziggy Marley
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• I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.

  

  Camille Claudel
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• One of the issues I kept saying to my students is you have to learn to interrupt. When you raise your hand at a meeting, by the time they get to you, the point is not germane. So the bottom line is active listening. If you are going to interrupt, you look for opportunities. You have to know what you're talking about.

  

  Madeleine Albright
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• In film, you're so much in the hands and at the mercy of the editor, so sometimes it's good to watch it just to see how it turns out - it can be so different than how you imagined it. But sometimes it's better to just let it go for your own sense of self worth.

  

  Finn Wittrock
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• Really, I prefer not to read my early books. Not that I don't like them, but I don't recognize myself anymore, like an old actor watching himself as a young leading man.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Man
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  • Young

• When I was young, about 18 or 19, I read all the Dostoyevsky novels, which made me want to go to St. Petersburg. So I went, and I was so inspired.

  

  Tadashi Shoji
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• For many people, managing pain involves using prescription medicine in combination with complementary techniques like physical therapy, acupuncture, yoga and massage. I appreciate this because I truly believe medical care should address the person as a whole - their mind, body, and spirit.

  

  Naomi Judd
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• Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.

  

  Quintilian
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• One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
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• I used to hate any batsman who would not get out in my deliveries.

  

  Kapil Dev
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• I think the American people are very smart in understanding our country is very trustworthy with nuclear weapons. We've had them from the beginning. But they have also been critical for keeping the world more at peace than it would have been if it hadn't been for the American nuclear umbrella.

  

  Haley Barbour
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• You want to know the biggest illusion about success? That it's like a pinnacle to be climbed, a thing to be possessed, or a static result to be achieved. If you want to succeed, if you want to achieve all your outcomes, you have to think of success as a process, a way of life, a habit of mind, a strategy for life.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Thinking
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• Randy said I could call him for anything, Paula said that she loved me and said how much of a star I was. Simon was like, keep up the good work and I'll have nothing to worry about.

  

  LaToya London
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  • Good
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• It is hard for people outside the White House to understand the constant daily problems and issues that come up that require the president's attention, but he can not let himself get too personally involved.

  

  Fred F. Fielding
  • People
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• Popularity gets up people's noses. But I understand the importance and the function of popular music. There is an artistic purpose. Popular music helps people to develop a curiosity and leads them towards classical music.

  

  Andrea Bocelli
  • People
  • Up
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• How can one ever know anything if they are too busy thinking?

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Thinking
  • Know
  • Busy

• I don't really know what inspires me to write the music I do, but usually, the music will set the tone for the lyrics.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Music
  • Know
  • Me