Tina Weymouth Quotes
I wasn't originally a bass player. I just found out I was needed, because everyone wants to play guitar.
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A novel is not a rant.
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We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.
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I have decided in 2020 to run for president.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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I am not opposed to intelligence reform on its face, but any changes should reflect the current context.
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Any time you challenge a big powerful person or special interest, there's going to be blowback.
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I'll never be, like, sippy cup country, or write about everything I do around the house.
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Every single administration in American political history has put cronies and pals and donors into political positions. But normally those people become the ambassador to Liechtenstein or the deputy undersecretary of commerce.
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We are all born mad. Some remain so.
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If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.
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I like writing people from a slightly sharp angle and then throwing more light on them. I think in life we see somebody and make judgments very quickly about who they are and what they are. Or we think people are boring because they appear ordinary.
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I love getting people's opinion of what I'm doing.
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Now I am within thirty yards of him. He must fall. The gun pours out its stream of lead. Then it jams. Then it reopens fire. That jam almost saved his life.
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I don't have a very quick sense of humor.
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There are so many people who are arguing or fighting over issues which don't have much relevance. We must all realise it is not worth it.
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I am not the archetypal leading man. This is mainly for one reason: as you may have noticed, I have no hair.
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Straight up. You can't mess with Jay when it's time to come play.
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And as an American colleague said to me several months ago, he said, 'I think the challenge in Jordan - and, again, this is for the rest of the Middle East - we need to define what center is. And once we can define what center is to a Jordanian, then we can decide what's left and what's right of that.
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Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
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I never deny poems when they come; whatever I am doing, whatever I am writing, I lay it aside and attend to the arriving poem.
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No former player has owned a team in baseball.
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I've never been able to sit round on my own and play drums, practice in the back room, never been able to. I've always played with other musicians. It's how I play, there's no joy for me in playing on my own, bashing away. I need a bass, a piano, guitar, whatever, and then I can play.
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I wasn't originally a bass player. I just found out I was needed, because everyone wants to play guitar.
