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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To talk to people, I have to spend energy talking to them. If I expend my energy on talking to people and making friends, it takes away from the energy I could focus on getting ready to pitch.
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Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.
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No one who has experienced facing a screaming, boiling, hysterical audience can avoid feeling shivers in the spine. It's a thin line between celebration and menace.
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What do you do if you are asked to do a job, first by the Prime Minister, and then by the King? How can you refuse?
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As has happened so often in history, victory had bred a complacency and fostered an orthodoxy which led to defeat in the next war.
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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.
