Butch Trucks Quotes
I've gotta be the only father begging his son to leave a six-figure job to go play in a rock n' roll band!
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I can't get my knickers in a twist about my age and ageing in an industry that caters to the ids of 14-year-olds.
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It's like driving your car. If you drive too fast on the highway, you will topple, so you better maintain your speed. Life is similar to that, and that's the way you have to control your head.
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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
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I used to be someone that needed nine hours of sleep; otherwise, I didn't think I was going to sound good when I sang, and I was very disciplined and anal about my preparation. When you become a parent, there just isn't that time, you know?
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A lot of labels are hiring a lot more accountants than people that know music.
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China's one-child policy was born in 1980, after years of less severe measures to discourage births. The Communist Party promised that the policy would be temporary.
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If you believe that your thoughts originate inside your brain, do you also believe that television shows are made inside your television set?
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I love theater. I love the idea that you can transform, become somebody else, and look at life with a completely new perspective. I love the idea that people will sit in one room for a couple of hours and listen.
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My neighbor doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied.
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Well, I'm an independent person.
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'Frida' was a joy; this was delicious, I couldn't wait every day to get to the set, although I was exhausted, and have my leg get cut off or lose the baby or be in her shoes and get to play my hero and be able to go places emotionally. You know, we live for parts like this. This is a dream for an actor.
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Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.
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There are many kids in and out of baseball who think that just because they have some natural talent, they have the world by the tail.
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Good and evil do not exist for me any more. The fear of evil is merely a mass projection here and on Earth.
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You've gotta share what's going on in your mind.
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Stan is a rescue Chihuahua mix. He was the role model for Bob, the dog in 'Ivan.' The drawings in the book look precisely like Stan.
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Experience has shown me that standing by oneself reading from one's book isn't especially compelling - unless you're David Sedaris.
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What the world is saying to us human beings is, 'Don't stick to the old ways, learn to think anew.' And that's what musicians do every day.
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In order to have the next generation of modems, you would need to pour in even more R&D spending. We came to the conclusion that we're going to have a tough time to really see that we are going to succeed in the modems business.
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And it's the President of the United States who said he wasn't going to spike the football and all this, we shouldn't gloat about it, running campaign ads, gloating about it and saying the other guy isn't good enough to do the tough things that I did, which I think is, one reprehensible.
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When my job was attempting to predict future economic developments for the Shell oil company, I was frequently reminded of an Arabic saying: 'Those who claim to foresee the future are lying, even if by chance they are later proved right.'
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You say, Wait a minute, God, you spared me from a slave job in an office, and now I have a slave job onstage. I am not on that clock no more.
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My favorite songs to sing have always been songs about regret. I don't know why that is, but to me, that's country music.
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I've gotta be the only father begging his son to leave a six-figure job to go play in a rock n' roll band!
