Thomas Dewar Quotes
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People trash talk me.
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The easiest way around the bases is with one swing of the bat.
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We live in a time where government is not a leadership thing, it's more a business that's out there and running riot, so I guess the people have to go out there and say stuff.
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I went into the sciences very early on, but to me, economics pervades so much more of our lives and our existence.
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All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don't subscribe to any of that. It's all just music. I mean, the heavy metal from the Seventies sounds nothing like the stuff from the Eighties, and that sounds nothing like the stuff from the Nineties. Who's to say what is and isn't a certain type of music?
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I've got a song on every album, two songs as a matter of fact on every album without Auto-Tune, and that's the song that nobody talks about. It's weird.
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I confess that reading proofs is a pleasure. It stimulates and inspires me.
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Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile, I caught hell for.
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I'm not too interested in books about India.
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I'm no model lady. A model's just an imitation of the real thing.
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The cause of war is preparation for war.
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The best way to teach somebody something is to have them think they're learning something else. I’ve done it my whole career. And the head fake here is that they’re learning to program but they just think they’re making movies and video games.
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She fitted into my biggest armchair as if it had been built round her by someone who knew they were wearing armchairs tight about the hips that season.
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We do not have that much to moan about when one thinks of what people did not moan about before.
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Epops: Come let me see, what shall the name be for our city? ... Euelpides: Hence, from the clouds, and these meteoric regions, some all-swelling name. Pisthetaerus: Would you 'Cloud-cuckoo-land?' (tr. Warter 1830, p. 215)
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John Howard's credibility on the entire Iraq war has been torpedoed by John Howard's own intelligence agency.
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I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.
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So now my road map has changed and I don't have a really clear idea of what the next stops are.
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When people are recording, and they're like, 'I want to get the drum sound of the Beatles,' I hate that.
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I have asked to have no funeral, and no memorial service. I hate other people's and would certainly not appreciate my own.
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When it comes to writers and poets, for me it's Vinicius de Moraes. He's one of the greatest lyricists ever.
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The concept of clearing one's mind before performing a task so that it is consumed by nothing but that task, yet is open at the same time to anything that might happen - that concept can be applied to playing guitar, and it's enormously helpful for improvising.
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The human mind is generally far more eager to praise and dispraise than to describe and define. It wants to make every distinction a distinction of value; hence those fatal critics who can never point out the differing quality of two poets without putting them in an order of preference as if they were candidates for a prize.
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Minds, like parachutes, only function when they are open.
