Mike Gordon Quotes
Actually, it's great to play with someone who tries to come up with interesting drum beats because it pushes the music in different directions.
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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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The biggest thing politically within fashion is that the clothing should be displayed on different body shapes.
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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I'm always trying to learn and grow, so my diet has, over the years, evolved.
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My childhood and adolescence were filled with visiting scientists from both India and abroad, many of whom would stay with us. A life of science struck me as being both interesting and particularly international in its character.
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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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I like doing a bunch of different things, being all over the place.
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I'm a little skeptical of foreign coaches in our league and in U.S. Soccer just because of how different our league is and our players are than other players around the world.
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My brother and I were separated when I was a child; we went with different parents.
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I tell my colleagues that it is actually all right to make mistakes, and I am worried when they do not make them, because it means that they either hide them from me or are not trying hard enough.
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I was trying to pay the bills with poems, and it was easy to memorize my poems, because I'd be riding my bike in California trying to memorize them before going on stage at a poetry lounge.
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The moral and intellectual character of the Africans is widely different in different nations.
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Trying to defeat an ideology by killing individuals is like trying to save a marriage with a blowjob. It might buy you some time, but in the end it'll just suck. 3.
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Everybody's at war with different things… I'm at war with my own heart sometimes.
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Germans have a rather healthy respect for the arts and artists, could not be more different from the British perspective.
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What I'm most proud of about 'Girl Meets World' is that it's going to appeal to all different demographics.
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You've got to put interesting people around you; you've got to work with people who are gonna inspire you to take the songs you've written into a completely different direction, because there's nothing more boring than going to the studio and predictably knowing what is going to happen.
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It's really interesting with scripts, because you never really know. It's paper and it could be great or awful. Even scripts that are good could end up not working.
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When you're holding people's attention, I feel you must give them high-quality ingredients. They deserve nothing but your best. And if they need information, get it, cross-check it, and try to be right. Do not waste their time; do not enjoy the ego trip of being onstage.
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Honestly, my smartest business decision was to never do anything that I didn't love doing.
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I think people are uncomfortable talking about the racist history of this country and what we need to do to undo the impact of racism.
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Be strong and follow your own convictions. You can't assume there is a lot of time to do what you like. This is what David Bowie is afraid of: that he will die before he gets a chance to make a real strong contribution.
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Actually, it's great to play with someone who tries to come up with interesting drum beats because it pushes the music in different directions.
