Butch Trucks Quotes
We all knew that asking another guitar player to step into Duane Allman's shoes would not really be fair to anybody who had a conscience.
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The point really is that a writer tends to write a book that he or she tends to write. It's as simple as that. Of course, it's important to make a living and all that, but the main impulse as far as I'm concerned - and I'm sure as other writers are concerned - is to tell a story that I feel impelled by.
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Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.
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I hate ugliness. You know I'm allergic to ugliness.
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China needs a powerful Europe, but Europe can only be strong if each and every one of its members attains rapid economic development.
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As I get older, the present and the past shift and become the past and the future... A lot of it is a new awareness of time and life and the wheel of fortune crushing you and lifting you and crushing you and lifting you.
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I didn't get a ton of interest from colleges in baseball and football, but I was outstanding in track and had the sense that this would be my meal ticket... Track was a sport where I saw immediate improvement, and I had a lot of good support behind me... and the coaches had a lot of experience and pushed me in that direction for sure.
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John Mayer and Jack Johnson are two of my all-time favorites. I love Colbie Caillat and really cool, beach-y, guitar, acoustic type music.
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I was working for Time-Life Books from 1962 to 1970, as a staff writer, and after that, I was a journalist. Eventually, I became an editor at 'The Saturday Review' and 'Horizon.'
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We really tried hard not to make it a cricket book, it appeals to a much wider community.
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I'd visit the near future, close enough that someone might want to talk to Larry Niven and can figure out the language; distant enough to get me decent medical techniques and a ticket to the Moon.
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He was a silly guy. Out - do the other guy. That was his effort at all times.
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You never know where your influences are going to come from, or where you're going to find your inspiration.
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Most of the competition was into bulk popcorn because of the major increases in the Drive-In Theatre Outlets.
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Every woman is a queen, and we all have different things to offer.
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It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
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I only photograph myself at poignant moments in my life as a check of where I am and how large my thighs are.
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Miley Cyrus is about making money. Amanda Palmer is about making art.
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Getting to the point where I was ready to write a book has been about a 20-year journey of being, really honestly, too afraid to try - which I think is pretty common for people who are trying to write a large piece of fiction.
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Now I begin to be a disciple... Let fire and cross, flocks of beasts, broken bones, dismemberment... come upon me, so long as I attain to Jesus Christ.
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The tug-of-war between Scientologists and anti-Scientologists over Hubbard’s legacy has created two swollen archetypes: the most important person who ever lived and the world’s greatest con man. Hubbard was certainly grandiose, but to label him merely a fraud is to ignore the complexity of his character.
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I just had a normal African childhood; we played football a lot, but it was always in the street and always without shoes. Boots were very expensive, and when there are seven in your family, and you say you want to buy a pair, your father wants to kill you.
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There's nothing worse than looking as if you've tried too hard or preened to within an inch of your life. If I'm wearing a strong item like a really beautiful dress, then I'll play down my shoes and accessories and make my hair really natural.
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I'm putting out this free music, constantly putting it out.
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We all knew that asking another guitar player to step into Duane Allman's shoes would not really be fair to anybody who had a conscience.
