Mike Gordon Quotes
Last tour my bass rig was breaking down every other night. That was a pain. We would get on stage and Trey would count off the song, and I'd play the first note and nothing would be there. Those guys would just roll their eyes.
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Coffee and smoking are the last great addictions.
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I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.
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People are incredible creatures of habit.
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I want to make this world perfect.
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The waves of religion based on terrorism in the 1990s are based on the tormented response of a mutilated Muslim society whose progressive forces have been savagely emasculated. Why on earth is the Arab world so hostile to women? Why can it not see women as a force for development?
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People think that if they read something in the newspaper or see it on TV, it has to be true.
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A woman is like a teabag. You can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.
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I don't like your I-can-use-anything-as-an-adjective attitude.
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For four years, I listened to stories of intelligence failures, and it wasn't due to incompetence of anyone in the system, but that the system is so arcane.
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Joss Whedon who created 'Buffy The Vampire Slayer,' 'Angel,' and all that... he is a genius.
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There's a certain way you stand to give yourself authority, which gives you the texture for the part. I chose that my character hadn't been married, he'd worked his way up the chain of command. For a small cameo role, I gave it a lot of thought.
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On Disney, we stick to the script. But you go to the 'Grown Ups set' and it's completely different. Same thing with Tyler Perry - it's nothing but ad-libbing.
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Ultimately, I want to direct a movie, so that's another thing, too, where I wonder what that will look like and how will I be able to manage.
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America has thrived on capitalism, and America will thrive again on capitalism.
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I think the best directors provide you with a safe environment where they can instill you with confidence and allow you to try things out and not feel like you're failing or that you're doing it wrong.
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When I was little, I went to a Jewish community day school for most of elementary school.
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You have to be in movies that make money to be offered work. Basically that's the equation. There's no real way around that. That said, you don't ever make decisions solely for that reason.
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These are the sort of things that push you on in music - the curiosity, a passion for new ideas.
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You can't kill Rock 'n' Roll. It's here to stay.
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Men may die, but the fabrics of free institutions remains unshaken.
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Led Zeppelin didn't get that kind of Beatles screaming. We had a more sort of macho crowd. But I remember once in the early days of The Yardbirds, we were playing on an ice rink, and the stage was mobbed by screaming girls. I had my clothes torn off me. That's a really uncomfortable experience, let me tell you.
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If you're going to play the game properly, you'd better know every rule.
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Once you become tagged as anything, it becomes difficult to shake it, because the less imaginative people in the business want you to do what worked for the last guy. That's always been something I've had to deal with.
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Last tour my bass rig was breaking down every other night. That was a pain. We would get on stage and Trey would count off the song, and I'd play the first note and nothing would be there. Those guys would just roll their eyes.
