Joel Hodgson Quotes
If you notice any of the press from when I was with the show, I would always deny it being the year 3000.
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I love bikes. I used to own one, but I fell off it when I was younger and that was the end of my bike riding days until now.
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I have got the best of both worlds; growing up in Edinburgh and now living outside Glasgow.
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My first thought is always of light.
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Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.
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Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.
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I think that we all stand on the dartboard of life. Roughly 30,000 people a year are going to catch a dart labeled pancreatic cancer, and that's unfortunate. It's not what I would have chosen. But I in no way feel like I deserved it.
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Although I enjoyed writing Film Music it was always a means to an end, in that it enabled me to keep a wife and family and write my classical music, which has always been my passion.
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I had a slight touch of Tourette's, which means you talk to yourself and bark and cry out at night.
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One thing that did get me into a lot of different types of music was when I was very young, the local record store went out of business and they were selling off all the vinyl. I remember going in – I was probably 16 or 17 and I'd just gotten a record player as a present. It was like hitting the jackpot: all these records for $3 apiece.
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My workday begins around 11 A.M., with a cup of black coffee in each hand. If I had more hands, there would be more coffee.
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I came to feel very, very sentimental about those sets, which is ludicrous, because they represent everything which is transitory and insubstantial. It's absurd that one should feel sentimental about timber and canvas.
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Horror is so often a 'thinkless' genre, sort of considered popcorn movies, but you really put a lot of, not just heart and soul, but a lot of physical energy into it.
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For cubic U I didn't know how it all got started at all.
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New Mexico is 2-to-1 Democrat. I got elected as a Republican. I think I did a great job of showing people that government doesn't have to spend money to make you happy, that government really needs to be providing a level playing field.
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After the golden age of Latinity, we gradually slide into the silver, and at length precipitately descend into the iron.
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As a philosopher sympathetic to Foucault recently remarked to me, Foucault failed in each of his major inquiries and, in desperation, went further afield from his areas of expertise. The History of Sexuality is a disaster. Page after page is sheer fantasy, unsupported by the ancient or modern historical record.
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Who knows but that, on the lower frequencies, I speak for you?
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I'm completely happy and fulfilled in my personal life.
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I was doing a show at the National Youth Theatre, playing an old man. Before that I had played fat clowns and I thought, 'If I want to have the career I would like, I am going to have to lose weight.' I was just starting drama school, and found I was moving around a lot. I also started to eat sensibly. The weight just dropped off.
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My job is to look at what politics is doing, not be a politician myself.
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When you grew up like me and my four brothers, you end up feeling somewhat inadequate, like somehow you don't count. I was very ill as a child and in and out of hospital. That sort of alienates you, and in my songs I put that to good use.
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I'll settle for successful during my lifetime because at least I can be conscious of the delusion that it means something.
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If you notice any of the press from when I was with the show, I would always deny it being the year 3000.
