Scott Ian Quotes
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Rock and roll doesn't necessarily mean a band. It doesn't mean a singer, and it doesn't mean a lyric, really. It's that question of trying to be immortal.
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I had the option of building a career in the U.S. Many of my friends who went at the time did not come back, but for me, building the family business and being with family was worth it. I became a general manager within four months, as I used my education to improve productivity and output.
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My life, my family and my friends are back in the U.K., so ideally I would love the kind of career that is split between London and New York.
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I'm at this point in my career where I'm trying to step away from the realm of fine arts, because I think it's a very exclusive, very restrictive place to be. What I want to be able to do is to change the lives of people with the same materials they deal with every day.
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Over my career, I've reinvented myself numerous times. I covered the Pentagon, the State Department, and the CIA. I wrote about labor wars, trade wars and real wars. I chronicled a nuclear plant meltdown and the defeat of Communism. I co-founded a couple of media businesses.
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Most Muslim women know it is fear and curiosity that cause people to stare. They know it is ignorance and stereotypes that cause people to suppose that a piece of material covering the hair strips a woman of the ability to speak English, pursue a career, work a remote control.
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Quite often, little germs of ideas have come from something that I've observed or someone's told me. The process of it becoming fiction is expanding and extending it: stretching the rubber band of reality.
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The one thing I know is, if I play good ball, things have tended to come along with it. Everything that I've ever done in my career has come off of playing good football. And so I realize I need to go out there, and I need to take care of my business; then everything else - all these cool, great things - come along with it.
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Telling stories has been a compulsion of mine since I could physically say, 'Once upon a time...' But in high school, I realized I could study creative writing in college and actually pursue it as a viable career.
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The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else. Job security is gone. The driving force of a career must come from the individual. Remember: Jobs are owned by the company, you own your career!
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It is a career that can be enhanced or destroyed by success.
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I've got guys in my band that have been there for about 35 years. They're great players, and we still enjoy doing the music.
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When I graduated I wasn't sure what I wanted to do, but I knew I didn't want a conventional career.
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It is not very practical in today's world when you tour all over the place having a big band.
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The rest of the band had a cynical view towards the way 'Tusk' was made and the reasons why I thought it was important to move into new territory. It wasn't just negativity. There was open hostility. Then I got a certain amount of flak because it didn't sell as many as 'Rumours.'
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A strong mentor can help a young woman find and advance in the career of her dreams that otherwise may have seemed impossible.
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I have dedicated my political career to bringing fairness to America's economic system and to our work force, regardless of what people look like or where they may worship.
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The fact is that I made a stand a number of times in my career, and I did it because I knew I was right.
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I love karaoke. I love maudlin country ballads. In another life, I'd be Loretta Lynn.
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If I wasted my time worrying, I would be deprived of all the simple joys of life!
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Education is not the accumulation of knowledge, but the ability to find it.
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Acting is trying to be absolutely truthful; to get audiences to believe that you are a dean, when, actually, not only are you not the dean, but if you walked into the building they'd probably throw you out. That's very hard.
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I wasn't allowed to leave Romania. That made me mad. You just want your freedom. You want your space. You want opportunity.
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Nobody gets into a band and thinks they're going to have a 30-year career.
