Josh Homme Quotes
I got into guitar because no parent will buy their eight-year-old kid drums, unless they're divorced and trying to get back at their wife.
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I'm not sure if being known opened or closed doors for me.
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When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
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I really enjoy dancing. When there's music around, I can't help it; I start dancing, especially when I'm with friends.
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When I travel, I just take what I need and I run. I always have my briefcase stuffed with work, even when I go on a holiday.
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I try to be as ignorant about things as I can.
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I want some colleague to be free to come help me when I say the time has come. That's what I'm fighting for, me. Now that sounds selfish. And if it helps somebody else, so be it.
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We must think differently, look at things in a different way. Peace requires a world of new concepts, new definitions.
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Marty Russo was too good a golfer to be a servant of the people.
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I have a fascination with Flight 93. My emotions are mixed: awe, gratitude, fear, heartache, pride - even, in some ways, guilt.
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When I first started making music, I was all about wordplay and how fast I could rap, but over the years, I've really gained an appreciation for melody. What's cool is that when you're singing, you have to be concise, and when you're rapping, you have the opportunity to be really detailed with your lyrics.
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In the long run, I believe that honesty is definitely the best policy. One can get away by being dishonest for a short term, but ultimately, honesty is what pays.
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I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.
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People don't have a good intuitive sense of how to weigh new information in light of what they already know. They tend to overrate it.
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You can grow apart from people very quickly.
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O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to praise the Lord. It utters a thousand pious follies, in a continuous endeavor to please Him who thus possesses it.
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I feel very much satisfied to play in Baltimore.
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We constantly had family conversations. A lot of conversations about life. We've always been a family to where we did everything together, whether it was karate or Bible study... I just really had a chance to look and learn.
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If you want to be loved, be lovable.
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Past experience has shown that the Islamists gain space when civilian authority weakens.
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Acting and recording an album at the same time, that's not my sport. I could write a movie when my attention was paid to that. But I'm good at one thing at a time.
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In South Korea, which is a much less conservative environment, politicians do not take their wives around with them as much as their American counterparts do. Showing pride in your wife is thought of as juvenile bad form. There's a special pejorative for people who do it.
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You can't show someone how to play the drums in six weeks, but you can point them in the right direction.
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The Madiba song may have ended, but its melody lingers on.
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I got into guitar because no parent will buy their eight-year-old kid drums, unless they're divorced and trying to get back at their wife.
