Tommy Bolin (Thomas Richard Bolin) Quotes
I used to try and take things in leaps and bounds. Now I've realized it's got to be step by step.
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Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.
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I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of many.
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I'm not confident in my own ability to resist the titanic force of my own ego.
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I sometimes wonder how we're short of cod. There's gonna be a load deep down that are hiding. But it's a good reason to put the price up, and it means a load of people will have haddock. They should tell people they're running out of all sorts. Make 'em panic a bit.
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I used to rely on black-and-white, and while I was working on 'Smile,' I learned to adapt to color on my end.
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I love reading; I really enjoy it. I read books quite fast, which kind of annoys me, but I like it at the same time because I can read a book in a day.
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Yes, I am very prolific.
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When we played with the Rollins Band, we'd keep songs going until we felt like ending it.
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Manhood is taking care of your family and being able to bless other people. Not yourself - but whether you can bless other people.
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I pride myself on being tragically uncool.
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When I was in grade school, my teachers decided I was just about the dumbest thing to come through the door in a long time. Whatever the lesson, whatever the subject, I would sit and listen to them with a lost, glassy-eyed expression on my face.
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For lack of a better word, I've let love and infatuation emasculate me.
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I believe in the moment of things and fate and things happening for a reason, so I write things down and I trust it.
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And the desire to own property, to take for ourselves things which in no way belong to us, does not stop short at the sun. The air is already bought and sold as a commodity, by health resorts. And what of water? Or waterpower? Why should the earth be parceled out into private hands? Is it any different from the sun? No; the earth belongs to the people who live on it. God intended it for them, but it has been taken over by private individuals. Privare means to steal. Thus private property is stolen property - property stolen from God and from humankind!
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Painting is similar to music. You get a couple or words or notes or chords that excite you, and you just follow them and add a bit more and see where it takes you. That's the thrill for me. It still is a thrill, which is amazing after all this time.
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Dancing's part of my soul. I enjoy it, it makes people happy, and it makes me happy.
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Happy the eyes that can close.
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You've only got to walk into a pub or a café or anything and you'll find people talking about topics they're very unhappy with. You feel as though things are being eroded and people don't know where they belong anymore.
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Mindless violence, well let me try to paint it. Here's the 5 steps in hopes to explain it: 1, It's me and my Nation against the World 2, Then me and my Clan against the Nation 3, Then me and my Fam against the Clan 4, Then me and my Brother, we no hesitation Go against the Fam until they cave in 5, Now who's left in this deadly equation? That's right, it's me against my Brother Then we point a Kalashnikov And kill one another.
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There are some things one can only achieve by a deliberate leap in the opposite direction.
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The strongest bond of human sympathy outside the family relation should be one uniting working people of all nations and tongues and kindreds.
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I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
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I used to try and take things in leaps and bounds. Now I've realized it's got to be step by step.
