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!
Quotes to Explore
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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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I love lamb shank. It's my favorite thing. You don't have it in America. It's a younger meat - it just falls off the bone - it's kind of like a roast. I really like blackened cod too.
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The great opportunity belongs to him who can see it, to him who can grasp it. The better part of your chance is right inside of you.
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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 am trying to concentrate on books. You know, I love Dostoevsky; he's my favourite writer.
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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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I started writing stories when I was six years old. I was a very shy kid, extremely shy, and I had a fabulous first-grade teacher who told me to write.
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All of the awards, applause, Twitter followers, shoes, it will all go away eventually. But if I can leave the world slightly more hopeful, inspired, and more healed than when I arrived, I did my job.
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Most people think I'm Danny Glover's son when they meet me. So when they ask, I say 'No, I'm Crispin Glover's son.' Then we stare at each other for a long time.
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A pretext-not a cause-is sufficient for us to enter the "solitary situation", the situation of the dreaming solitude. In this solitude, memories arrange themselves in tableaux. Decor takes precedence over drama. Sad memories take on at least the peace of melancholy.
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Entrepreneurs are like cats, because they are independent and do their own thing. Although organisations say they like cats, what they really want is sheep that they can herd.
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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!
