Jimmy Page Quotes
I really don't like showing people how I play things; it's a little embarrassing because it always looks so simple to me.
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It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.
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At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.
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I have learned to be patient.
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I think I am very hands-on mother. I am very strict, and my daughter keeps telling me, 'You are too hard on me,' and I keep telling her, 'I have to be hard because if I am not hard, you will not learn the lessons that I want you to learn.' I think it is really important to be that way.
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I think what 'The Monster' means to me is I find it really hard - like a lot of other people in the world - to really be OK in my own skin. It was a message to myself saying, 'It's OK that you're not perfect.' I'm gonna learn to love myself and accept myself, even though I'm a little crazy.
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There's nothing scarier than unlimited choices.
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No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.
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Honestly, I'd love to say I live this amazing Hollywood lifestyle, but actually, I'm at home with my same friends and cooking. I crochet, I do watercolor. I think what surprised me the most is that that isn't the lifestyle everyone necessarily lives.
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To be honest, as an actor, job security is not a trait.
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That's actually how my parents met. They were pen pals. My mom was in the Philippines and my father was in the States, and they wrote to each other. He went out to meet her, and they wed not too long after.
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Democracy presumes that we're all created equal; competition proves we are not, or else every race would end in a tie.
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I'd rather play a tune on a horn, but I've always felt that I didn't want to train myself. Because when you get a train, you've got to have an engine and a caboose. I think it's better to train the caboose. You train yourself, you strain yourself.
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I was a pop freak. I love music. Of course, I knew soul because I grew up in it. Writing it and everything. I love soul. But I love a tune that has some meat in it. Something I could hang my hat on. Because music is universal. Therefore, I felt no boundaries.
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The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.
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I'm a pro-horserace guy.
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Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station.
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Collecting is my passion.
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I feel like I'm not on Earth just to shake it and shake it endlessly, you know?
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My mom moved up between Leland and Greenville when I was just a little tot.
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When you put something out there into the world, there's all these words you don't want to hear, that you hope people don't say. I don't like anything that starts with 're' - like retro, reinvent, recreate - I hate that. It's always like living in the past - copying, emulating.
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Land ownership has never been a problem. People have access to land. The peasants cannot complain about land ownership.
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People in New England think that the Red Sox won that series, three games to four.
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I really don't like showing people how I play things; it's a little embarrassing because it always looks so simple to me.
