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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All the marvels of nature are glimpses of His divine power and expressions of His love.
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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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If you can grasp those two truths - you are made in His image and dependent on Him - you will discover a great dignity and at the same time a profound humility.
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Why be a dumb dud? Do your friends shun you? Do people cross the street when they see you approaching? Do they run up the steps of strange houses, pretend they live there and force their way into the hall while you are passing by? If this is the sort of person you are, you must avail yourself today of this new service. Otherwise, you might as well be dead.
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In the arts they call it plagiarism, in business they call it competition.
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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.
