Eddie Van Halen Quotes
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I think when you're a director, it's hard to do something unless you're absolutely over-the-moon in love with it. The audience, they spend 90 minutes with it, but for you, it's anywhere between a year and a half to three years of your life, every day, working on it.
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Hip-hop in Africa has been very often a duplication of an American experience, but in a context that's totally alien to it.
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For me, it is very important to control a situation in defence. You can always score goals, but you have to add stability in the defence.
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I have lived a carnal life.
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You graduate from film school and move to Hollywood. Hollywood tells you, 'We're not the place for you to make films,' so you decide you have to make a film yourself.
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I was a teenage girl once. I was not an overweight teenage girl, but I had really bad acne when I was 11 or 12 years old. It was heart-rending, and people made fun of me. People whispered when I walked by in the hallways, and I was sure they were whispering about me. My adult perspective is maybe they weren't.
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The decline of manners, the cynical pursuit without shame or restraint of personal advantage and of money characterizes our times, not without exceptions, of course, but more than we ought to be comfortable with.
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I haven't leaked anything to anybody. They are wrong!
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I have got to the point in my life when a lot of people I know have died or are dying, so I realise that somewhere outside the pearly gates is a queue, shuffling nearer and nearer to the celestial box office.
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Critics haven't taught me my cricket, and they don't know what my body and mind are up to.
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I wish that the Democrats would put some effort into Social Security reform, illegal immigration's reform, tax reform, or some of the other real issues that are out there.
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It's just different in the music world. You come more with an entourage.
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We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.
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Living with very limited expectations is a much more immediate way of living. You really do just make the best of everything you have. I guess kids have that ability; they wait in joyful anticipation of something rather than that sense of entitlement.
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Serve yourself, put the food away, then eat.
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I'm very happy with the way I write. I think I do it good. But I've never really considered myself a writer.
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I've struggled a lot for what I have today.
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The kind of artist I would like to be is definitely versatile. I don't like being boxed in or put into a genre, so to speak.
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Regardless of the nature of their crime or any rehabilitation that may have occurred, these ex-felons cannot participate in the decision-making process of this great Nation.
Charles B. Rangel -
Some people are more fluid than others at just being themselves and recognizing what's good about themselves.
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Those who walk in radical obedience have made themselves ready for the storm, and they will overcome.
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It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. There are more television addicts, more baseball and football addicts, more movie addicts, and certainly more alcohol addicts in this country than there are narcotics addicts.
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A scientific autobiography belongs to a most awkward literary genre. If the difficulties facing a man trying to record his life are great - and few have overcome them successfully - they are compounded in the case of scientists, of whom many lead monotonous and uneventful lives and who, besides, often do not know how to write . . .
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Major third complications can be overcome by lots of alcohol.
