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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I have Graham Greene's telephone number, but I wouldn't dream of using it. I don't seek out writers because we all want to be alone.
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With so many forty- and fifty something mums and dads in Converse stalking the streets, I can see why there's a slew of books about the menopause and middle age, the most recent addition being David Bainbridge's plucky, glass-half-full meditation or, as he calls it, 'natural history.'
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Cities produce in me melancholy or a tension I don't need.
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The struggle for the vote was an effort to bring men to feel less superior and women to feel less inferior.
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I didn't choose acting. The universe did.
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History is a great dust heap.
