Simon Travaglia Quotes
There's no such thing as 'facts of life'. Only standing theories that haven't been disproved as of yet.
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My job in this life is to give people spiritual ecstasy through music. In my concerts people cry, laugh, dance. If they climaxed spiritually, I did my job. I did it decently and honestly.
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I grew up playing hockey and some football, and I always think about the first time you walk into the locker room on a new team. The cliques are looking at you funny, and you make one friend, but then they're trying to stab you in the back.
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Ultimately, our goal was to be a band and be recognized for our songs and making records. And I think that has been the case.
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I was shot at for being a Tamil in Sri Lanka, and then, everyone was calling me a Paki in London, and I'm not even Pakistani.
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I have such pride in furthering the American musical and using it as a way to tell story.
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American music is a powerful ingredient in international music, and as much as it comes from within, it also comes from without.
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Real beauty is to be true to oneself. That's what makes me feel good.
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I watched the Bush administration overreact to the Clinton administration, who believed they did too much nation building, sustaining other countries, and that's why we never put the commitment on Afghanistan and Iraq that should have been in there under their policy leadership.
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When I was little, I wasn't allowed to put sugar on my breakfast cereal because it made me so hyper.
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There is no religion higher than truth.
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So consumed in all your doom, trying hard to fill the emptiness.
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I realize now that taking drugs was like taking an aspirin without having a headache.
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Live life for the moment, because everything else is uncertain.
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Taking care of your body, no matter what your age, is an investment.
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All improvement in your life begins with an improvement in your mental pictures.
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Just as I lay back, she sat up. I sat up, and she flopped back down. Awkward. That was my every move when it came to her. Now we were both lying down, staring up at the blue sky.
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Power is so apt to be insolent and Liberty to be saucy, that they are seldom upon good Terms.
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Who knows if the moon's / a balloon, coming out of a keen city / in the sky - filled with pretty people?
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All I want to think about for a couple of months is art. The rest is a waste of time and emotion. So here’s the lovely Annunciation by Antonello de Messina I saw in Syracuse. Antonello was the first great Italian master of oil paints, because Sicily was too damp for fresco.
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Cute" is one of those words people use when they know you're smart enough to realize "you've got so much personality" means "you're ugly.
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When you start, it's not to do with the material so much. It's more to do with how you can control a crowd and make friends with an audience and sell your brand of humor.
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Ignoring facts does not make them go away.
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There's no such thing as 'facts of life'. Only standing theories that haven't been disproved as of yet.
