Phil Anselmo Quotes
I've heard too many times where people say that I'm this ultra-serious guy. In truth, I've got an extremely absurd sense of humor. I thrive on the absurd - I love it.
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The natural world is often bleak, but the language devoted to it is as careful as needlepoint and prophetic as well.
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Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?
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I am not from a film family or a Mumbai girl. The probability of getting a second chance is low, and so one has to be more careful.
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My co-founder Dylan Smith and I left our junior year of college to move to the Bay Area. To the horror of our friends' parents, we actually had two other friends drop out of college to work on the product. The four of us were just working non-stop growing Box.
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Excelsior, higher and higher, but only step by step.
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When I was a kid, we got in a cipher and battled each other lyrically. We told jokes and made the hottest dance moves.
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The music business is a crazy game, especially for somebody like me who is really a purist about the art. Trying to balance the pressures of commercialism, it's a tightrope. It's a fine line between sticking to your guns and insanity.
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I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.
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I always preferred my father's pasta the next day, when he'd put it in a hot oven with heaps of extra cheese. It would emerge slightly burned and very crisp on top.
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I hate the fact that people think 'compromise' is a dirty word.
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When I was a kid, a pickleball hit me in the back of the head, and I had memory problems. I was in a boarding school and the nuns gave me poems to remember to try and get the memory going again.
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Forcing people to be generous isn't humanitarian, effective, compassionate or moral. Only acts that are truly voluntary for all concerned can be truly compassionate.
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If I get to be a legend, I've achieved my goal.
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I want to show that the underdog can win. I believe we're all the same: you, a slum girl, my mother.
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That Shaw is the most egotistical thing! He hogged the camera and spent more time with the hairdresser and the makeup man than any actor on the lot!
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But, you see, the theatre is not always art in America.
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I would say old school cats like Redman and Wu-tang. My style is my style, those are just cats that I liked.
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The flames of the heart consumed me, and the mindIs but a foolish wind.
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When you stop comparing what is right here and now with what you wish were, you can begin to enjoy what is.
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Economics should be defined in terms of what it is about. It should be about how people produce things, how people exchange them, how people earn income, how they pay taxes, how the government provides infrastructure with tax revenue, and how it conducts monetary policy. The subject has to be defined in terms of the object of inquiry.
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The fact that I am still alive after 100,000 laps is my championship.
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Every forward is selfish, and any forward who tells you he is not selfish is a liar.
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Los Angeles is an uncanny place to live. It has many science fiction qualities. For example, when I'm standing in line at the supermarket and I recognise the person in front of me, but I can't figure out how I know them. Suddenly, I realise I saw them in some random commercial six years ago.
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I've heard too many times where people say that I'm this ultra-serious guy. In truth, I've got an extremely absurd sense of humor. I thrive on the absurd - I love it.
