John Deacon Quotes
That first bass I had was an Eko, a very old thing with a thin neck, I had that for quite a while.
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Some people ask, 'How do you attract the young and so many different people when your poetry is complicated and different?' I say, 'My accomplishment is that my readers trust me and accept my suggestions for change.'
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So long as you create laws that define women as victims, as creatures that demand protection, that need bodyguards, you are going to perpetuate the very worst of our sexist past.
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And then I think now we are - you know his - like I've always said. His spirit is so large that we feel his presence around the show, and we always will. He will always have a voice.
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When I get down to Louisiana, I get to have a taste of some of that great food.
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To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.
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When I'm reading material, if I'm a little bit afraid of a part and I'm willing to admit that to myself, then I'll do it, definitely. If I'm worried about being able to do it, to get it - I absolutely just love it.
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I went through the extremes of amazing notoriety and also the dreaded things that you never thought you'd have to live through. Not everything works the way you want it to, but if I sit back and think, 'Am I happy about this?' Yeah. I wouldn't have done anything any better.
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Jay Leno is not a guy who likes change. He eats the same food every day.
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Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.
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Many of the problems of poverty and need are really problems of physical infrastructure: not enough hospitals, too few schools, insufficient roads, bridges, and a lack of tools. This is what makes traditional philanthropy so daunting. You could build a thousand new hospitals in some parts of the world and barely make a difference.
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The main thing that you have to remember on this journey is, just be nice to everyone and always smile.
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I would love to play a superhero. I sometimes walk around thinking, 'If I were a superhero, what would my superpower be?'
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My mother gave me a push. If I hadn't had her, maybe I wouldn't have had the push. If I hadn't gone to military school, maybe I wouldn't have decided to get with the program. Maybe I'd be running a bulldozer, rather than going on and doing something more.
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I knew I wanted to be a writer before I knew that being a writer was possible.
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The press called me a billionaire, and my wife came up and said I must be squirreling money away.
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Sometimes photographing people is like pulling teeth, trying to get some sort of personality.
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A government is invigorated when each of us is willing to participate in shaping the future of this nation.
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If you're truthful with yourself and others, forgiveness clears the path to righteousness, to grace. All we want is grace. We all want that light in our lives. And we can only get that when we go deep into truth.
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I like to tell kids that I started thinking about stories when I first started reading stuff like Dr. Seuss and 'Go, Dog. Go!,' thinking, 'Oh yeah, that's funny. I'd like to do that.' And then writing throughout school, but at the same time I was studying pre-med stuff, because my mom told me I should be a doctor.
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I've been wearing Vans since I was a little kid. I wear them on stage, and I grew up skateboarding and surfing.
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New Yorkers are historically tough crowds.
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Ann and I were the main writers in Heart. We had the leadership role, and the guys in the band sometimes had a hard time with that.
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That first bass I had was an Eko, a very old thing with a thin neck, I had that for quite a while.
