Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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I'd just play 'til my hands fell off. My parents would yell at me to stop because they couldn't stand the noise any more! I was terrible! It must have been hard for them to listen to me as a beginning drummer.
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My whole life, people have been saying, Why are you so angry?
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Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.
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It's been tough for me being away from the game.
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I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.
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You don't drown by falling into water. You only drown if you stay there.
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Going out and looking for managers is like going out and looking for rattlesnakes.
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My first name, with the rare two-r spelling, came from a sportswriter named Garry Schumacher. My parents didn't know him personally, but my mother liked the spelling.
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Scribbling things down is my therapy. I filter later.
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I'll proudly stand with one of the great leaders this state and country have ever produced: Rick Perry.
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I meet everybody. If somebody invites me to their house and they got a drum set close, I'm going to play, man. Let's jam. I don't care. Get in where you fit in and enjoy the experience.
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Since I have been singing for so many years, I don't always need to approach a song quite so laboriously and meticulously.
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How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.
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The more you stay with and/or complain about a toxic person, the more you're merely delaying doing the important inner work you need to do - to heal your wounds, expand your limiting beliefs, and show yourself far more love and respect.
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Experience has shown me that standing by oneself reading from one's book isn't especially compelling - unless you're David Sedaris.
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When you use words, you're able to keep your mind alive. Writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence.
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Most of the movies I saw growing up were viewed as totally disposable, fine for quick consumption, but they have survived 50 years and are still growing.
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But the exposure we got by doing the stint with Nine Inch Nails brought us a lot of attention.
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Attempts are being made to turn Pakistan into a security state. If they succeed they should better rename it 'ISIstan.'
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History is a lie commonly agreed upon.
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Everyone knows history is written by the winners, but that cliche misses a crucial detail: Over time, the winners are always the progressives. Conservatism can only win in the short term, because society cannot stop evolving (and social evolution inevitably dovetails with the agenda of those who see change as an abstract positive). It might take seventy years, but it always happens eventually. Serious historians are, almost without exception, self-styled progressives. Radical views--even the awful ones--improve with age.
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I keep thinking that history runs in cycles, and that some day certain large issues will come before the country again. There will be leaders that inspire young people. I don't think it means that it's over forever, but I'm getting pretty impatient. I'm hoping it comes soon, so that my young people can know that experience that we knew in the '60s, and that the World War II generation knew during the '40s.
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I do limit my exposure to the public. You only have so much time.
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History is a great dust heap.
