Jimmy Page Quotes
The guitar to me, from the classical/gut-string guitar right through to Hendrix, et cetera, has all the range [of sound]. Within those six strings it is incredible what one can get sound-wise. It's just down to imagination, really.
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A novel is not a rant.
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Relationships, like cars, should undergo regular services to make sure they are still roadworthy.
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My mom was such a strong character. I don't want to say she was like a man, but she was tough.
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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.
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If the plane moves, some turbulence, I am nervous flyer.
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Considering retirement is like skirting with the reality of what's to come, and I think that's why so many athletes decide to do more introspection at that point.
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I'm really terrible with small children; they're small, noisy, irritating, damp and soggy.
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We are all born mad. Some remain so.
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I sort of always had an inkling towards some kind of an art form. I grew up in a very small town, and I just figure-skated. My dad played hockey and I was surrounded by sports, but it wasn't quite doing it for me. I wasn't totally fulfilled, and I did a lot of skating.
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Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully?
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My mother is my hero.
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We have these old fashioned ideas. For instance, here in America, we talk about democracy - but we don't have a democracy. There are elements of a democracy.
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In my life, there have always been people who guided my path, towards the school, towards this company. I didn't know about any of it. I didn't have a plan. It's good fortune and generosity from other people that have given me all I have today.
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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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Career is important, but nothing really supersedes my roles as a mother.
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It's interesting, the things you learn when you're 21. I learned never to get tattoos in the middle of shooting a movie. Because if you're not Angelina Jolie or Megan Fox, they will fire you.
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The presumption of innocence, the benefit of the doubt, walking without worrying - these should not be hallmarks of white privilege. They are human rights - human rights - that should be enjoyed by all.
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I come from a poor family, so really, the culture I know best is the street, TV, school.
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Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.
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I'm horrified of leprechauns. I'm horrified that I might be leprechauns.
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When I first started in Malaysia, having a Muslim Malay girl singing and holding a guitar was new to everyone. Even Muslims there had issues with it; they found it weird.
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If you can't play guitar and sing in Nashville, you might as well just be a construction worker.
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In the laboratory the gambits all test unfavorably, but the old rule wears well, that all gambits are sound over the board.
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The guitar to me, from the classical/gut-string guitar right through to Hendrix, et cetera, has all the range [of sound]. Within those six strings it is incredible what one can get sound-wise. It's just down to imagination, really.
