Mike Joyce Quotes
When I watch drummers, I always want to see energy. It's not about the proficiency of the musicianship; I'm just into the vibe and excitement of it. With drums, it's such a primeval thing.
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If you want to do stuff, you have to be able to handle controversy.
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The only difference between a dead skunk lying in the road and a dead lawyer lying in the road is that there are skid marks around the skunk.
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I had some problems with fidelity in my life but pretty much got along with everybody.
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Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life.
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God isn't really interested in our batting averages.
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Engagement means that in the future there will be a lot more ways for our audience to interact with Univision content.
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'Breakfast at Tiffany's' isn't a great movie because Audrey Hepburn is brilliant and everyone else isn't. It's a great movie because everybody is fascinating, and she is at the center of it being amazing.
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It would have been fun to have played Tim Robbins' role in Bull Durham.
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From a social networking point of view, Pakistan is not very far away.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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I happen to think singing is hilarious, especially when it pops out at the wrong time.
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I'm a walking, talking enigma. We're a dying breed.
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The historical circumstance of interest is that the tropical rain forests have persisted over broad parts of the continents since their origins as stronghold of the flowering plants 150 million years ago.
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If you can find a frock you look nice in and can run up three flights of stairs, you're not fat.
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I want to thank Vox Media, The Verge, Recode, the 'Wall Street Journal,' and CNBC for giving me a voice.
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Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.
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The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
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I feel like the rap metal at the end of the 1990s destroyed rock music for everybody and suddenly everybody felt like they had to apologise for being in rock bands. People suddenly felt bad about wanting to reach massive audiences and the sense of theatre, that we have in our live show, became something to avoid.
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Our Earth is talking to us, and we must listen to it and decipher its message if we want to survive.
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When I'm writing a song, things are always popping into my head, it's not so direct. It feels more like I'm in a room and there's this whole big jumble of clothes on the floor and it's like choosing what to wear. There are a lot of different things in there and you kind of pull something out and think, "No, that's not right," or you're like, "Yes I'll put this on with this."
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I usually work on a film soundtrack for two years, turning in a song every few months, and that keeps my creative energy high, because I'm constantly rotating projects. The trick is to make sure I don't work too hard and get exhausted.
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The emphasis of my government is to take advantage from the Chinese experience in the fields of agriculture, fisheries, energy, infrastructure, development, health and high efficiency irrigation.
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We either misdirect or depress great amounts of energy in order to keep ourselves from feeling pain, including what we feel in the moment and being who we are in the moment.
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When I watch drummers, I always want to see energy. It's not about the proficiency of the musicianship; I'm just into the vibe and excitement of it. With drums, it's such a primeval thing.
