Phil Anselmo Quotes
To do an extreme metal record is something that is well within my capacity as a musician to write stuff out of the box, write stuff that's probably more extreme than the band I'm in at the present time, and it's something that needs to come out of me one way or another.
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More than trends, consumers need functionality. Everything needs an element of fashion, but that's more like a spice.
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I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.
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Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy.
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I had about four days of like, 'Pity party, woe is me, it's all over.' Then I did some research and spoke with doctors and got in contact with people who have MS, and I soon realized it's actually a lot more manageable than the kind of public perception of it is, and that's part of the reason why I've been so outspoken about it.
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The sky is always there for me, while my life has been going through many, many changes. When I look up the sky, it gives me a nice feeling, like looking at an old friend.
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During my second draft pass on my last book I made 20,000 words happen in a week, which is practically supernatural for me, and it would never have been possible without three nights in a hotel in my own city.
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I can't predict exactly what the TV channel of the future is, but we think more and more time spent on TV is going to be around web content and web video.
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I saw an interview that I did with someone, and I was horrified by it. And I said to my wife, 'This is unbearable how I talk.'
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If I'm confirmed, I'll be myself.
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I'm a dedicated Republican and a proud party man.
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I was not the popular kid in school.
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Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.
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The federal government has not been effective enough monitoring and surveilling bad guys.
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I've laid my friends bare.
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China and Russia are regarded as the most formidable cyber threats.
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Dallas was a Black and White society at that time; it didn't have the diversity it has now.
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I'm sponsored by Audi, so I have this rather lovely rather arrangement where they just insist that I'm always in the latest model.
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I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.
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The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated.
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I read somewhere once that in the 1960s, fiction writers were troubled by the notion that life was becoming stranger and more sensational than made-up stories could ever hope to be. Our new problem - more profound, I think - is that life no longer resembles a story. Events intersect but don't progress. People interact but don't make contact.
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Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind.
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The process depends on the situation, and I don't think there are any two songs that have gone exactly the same way... well, actually, that's not true.
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To do an extreme metal record is something that is well within my capacity as a musician to write stuff out of the box, write stuff that's probably more extreme than the band I'm in at the present time, and it's something that needs to come out of me one way or another.
