Phil Anselmo Quotes
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I really honestly can't see myself as a lawyer. It's pretty much safe to say I'll never become one.
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When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn't as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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People just love to be entertained, and in order to entertain them, you have to do things in a way that they understand.
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Whenever you get to win, you feel the satisfaction of all of your hard work, all the sacrifices, all the blood, sweat and tears. It feels right and makes you realise that you are really doing the right thing.
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It's important for people to understand where things come or what they represent.
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Living in a cultural milieu where the foreign writers most widely available and admired were Russian, I came very late to postwar American writers, and I had great trouble with the canonically exalted white male writers I tried first.
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To stay true to your art is such a complicated journey, and Dad clearly has done it.
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Winning is about heart, not just legs. It's got to be in the right place.
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I hope that the movie industry will learn from the experiences of the music industry and will be much more constructive in their approach to P2P.
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My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.
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I have a ranch, which is my favorite place in the world.
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The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.
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Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.
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It is our hope that the AP program can serve as an anchor for increasing rigor in our schools. Rigor can be maintained while increasing student participation.
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I buy five of the same shirts. I literally have six blue shirts. Now I have six green shirts.
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That's the joy of art - it should be dangerous and challenging but it's just art - it's safe.
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I guess I was phenomenally lucky that I was introduced to dancing because I'm suited to it. It would be very weird if you had this natural ability for something and you never discovered it. It must happen all the time.
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I think they do it to pass the time, nothing more. But time is too large, it can't be filled up. Everything you plunge into it is stretched and disintegrates.
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The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism.
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I guess the thing I would say most fervently is that your original impulse to write something is an impulse you should trust, and that if it doesn't work on the first draft, which it hardly ever does, the commitment to revising ought to be something you embrace really early. And to revise and revise and revise.
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The music I listened to as a kid - the Stones, the Beatles - that was so rebellious at the time, it became mainstream.
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I'm always going to get more of a charge playing Chicago than I will Duluth or some place like that. Just because of the history and the people there are way more knowledgeable than a lot of other cities. It's an amazing music scene with some great bands and great musicians.
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To me, I'm for a band whose forefront is the music.
