John Steinbeck Quotes
Books ain't no good. A guy needs somebody - to be near him. A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody.
Quotes to Explore
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Team synergy has an extraordinary impact on business results.
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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I am not content to entrust our free-speech rights to the good graces and whims of Congress and hope that politicians don't abuse their power.
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First responders will be on the frontlines if there is a terrorist attack in our communities, and we must provide them with the tools they need to do their difficult jobs.
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I like the fact that Austin's the first place I've ever lived where there's a real sense of community. People care about their neighbors.
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I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.
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The search for knowledge is a long and difficult task.
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I influence people, hopefully on the positive side.
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I maintain music is not here to make us forget about life. It's also here to teach us about life: the fact that everything starts and ends, the fact that every sound is in danger of disappearing, the fact that everything is connected - the fact that we live and we die.
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A startup is literally just a series of unfortunate events where you failed, failed, failed, and failed until you succeed.
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Exposing your ignorance is how you get somebody to embrace you.
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Good work is good work wherever it's done, in a play, a motion picture or television, and that includes commercials.
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I don't have mom issues or dad issues. I think I have found peace about many things in my past. I have forgiven and asked to be forgiven.
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I was at 260 at Tennessee because I was playing three-technique.
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I guess the reality is, everybody today has so many gadgets.
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There's so much bullying with young people and them feeling like they can't come out, and they don't know what to do. And it's something that you have to work through. And, you know, for me, it was - I came out, and then I went back in for a minute. And then I came out, and I was like, 'You know what? This is who I am.'
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My music, certainly, has never embarrassed me.
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Being a wrestler is like walking on the treadmill of life. You get off it and it just keeps going.
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The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.
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As you can appreciate over my lifetime I've developed a large vocabulary of sounds each requiring certain physical techniques often combined with a specific effect box.
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I always appreciate people's opinions, but sometimes I have to take a step back and remember why I'm writing and what I want to do with it. Shutting out the voices is difficult but it's been good for me.
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In history, the millions win; that is democracy.
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Who can tell us of the inhabitants of this little planet that shines of an evening, called the moon?...when you inquire about the inhabitants of that sphere you find that the most learned are as ignorant in regard to them as the most ignorant of their fathers. So it is in regard to the inhabitants of the sun. Do you think it is inhabited? I rather think it is. Do you think there is any life there? No question of it; it was not made in vain. It was made to give light to those who dwell upon it, and to other planets; and so will this earth when it is celestialized...
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Books ain't no good. A guy needs somebody - to be near him. A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody.
