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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Even rats can only be kicked around for so long before they've had enough.
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I prefer poems that occupy an imaginative sphere. When I lived in Cincinnati, I was occasionally referred to as an "Ohio Poet;" this made me uneasy, not only because I think of myself as a generally American poet but also because I like to think I write out of the country of my own mind.
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I do probably 80 or 90 per cent of the cooking at home.
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My philosophy all my life has been the pursuit of excellence.
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The job of the architect becomes more difficult in this secular age. Where once he had a god to extol, he now has humans like himself; where once he had "he," he now has "she" and "they.
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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.
