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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O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.
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I want to make this world perfect.
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I've done movies for certain reasons; I did 'Anaconda' because the black man lives. Simple. The black man isn't dead in the first three pages, like Jurassic Park. It's like, 'The black man kills the snake with a Latino girl? Damn! I got to do this.'
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The interesting thing for me is, if I met Michael Peterson in person, I'd want him to let himself off the hook just a little bit.
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I like to be surprised. The best writing is when it defies me, when it starts going a different way than I had planned.
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I am a black man inside and outside and you are white men on the outside, but inside, you are Africans like me.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
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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I think it's safe to say that 'manliness' was a common theme in my upbringing. It was an assumed status, but - and here's the important bit - it was the Rudyard Kipling kind. The emphasis was on gentlemanly conduct, sportsmanship, fairness and stoicism.
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I really, really missed the Pennsylvania countryside and hills.
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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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Love the little trade which thou hast learned, and be content therewith.
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I always get this feeling on my last day of work that I'm never going to work again.
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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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Somebody ask me, 'Alberto, why you not race in Torino?' I finished my career here in 1998, the 15 of March which was my last victory.
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I think I have minor obsessive compulsive disorder. Everything has to be tidy and just right.
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My gift's primarily literary. That being said, I ended up a musician. By the time I made the bluegrass record...I'm more impressed with myself when I push the envelope musically than I am when I push it literality.
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I am a total geek. I'm not even a closet comic book geek. I am the comic book geek.
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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.
