Jimmy Chamberlin Quotes
Had I joined a straight rock band, I'm sure my drumming would be a little bit different right now.
Quotes to Explore
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A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.
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After 2012, all of the Washington political consultants and all the mainstream media came to Republicans and said, 'You've got to do better with Hispanics, and the way to do better with Hispanics is to embrace amnesty.' And, look, a lot of Republicans in Washington were scared.
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I never wanted to give up my given name. I'm proud of it, but the only problem was that no one remembered it. It was just a little too awkward, and they mispronounced it so frequently.
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Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.
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Kids are taking music for free all the time. They have Spotify, Pandora... The record companies aren't making the kind of music that they used to make. Artists make their money on tours, not from album sales.
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Whether I sound like Sammy or not is purely coincidence. You have got to hand it to him, he sings his ass off. There is no moss on that stone.
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I'll have the chance to do a production number on A Capitol Fourth.
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I always tell audiences when I talk about writing: Writing isn't something I do; writing is something that I am. I am writing - it's just an expression of me.
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I don't like denial. I don't like repression.
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My little son, Atticus, desperately needs his dad and I haven't been there for him... and that's sad.
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You can't be preachy - kids are allergic to messages.
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Except for the Bible, the two greatest documents ever written are the U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.
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I happen to be the kind of reader who, if I like something, I don't want it to end.
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ISIS itself, it draws its central belief system from the Koran and from the writings of the Prophet Muhammad. That is undeniable. And it's a medieval interpretation of it. It is a literal interpretation of it.
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'Blood Meridian' was without question the novel that made me want to become a writer.
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The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
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Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis.
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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
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I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written.
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We need to eat and enjoy it but control it. That's what I do now.
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Bind together your spare hours by the cord of some definite purpose.
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I have seven children by six different mothers. Maybe success was too good to me.
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The piano is the only keyboard instrument in which one can grandly vary the effects of the harmonics or overtones of a chord at will by balancing the sonority in different ways.
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Had I joined a straight rock band, I'm sure my drumming would be a little bit different right now.
