Tommy Bolin (Thomas Richard Bolin) Quotes
My first joint I smoked onstage in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. I smoked my first joint live.
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I don't even own a television. I don't watch network television.
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Spend time reflecting on your emotional and physical existence and how that applies to the voice. You have to apply that wisdom and experience when you sing - it's what comes through.
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I'm waiting for them to make 'Thundercats'. I would love to be Cheetara.
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Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.
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I was born abroad, but my parents were both English. Still, those few years of separation, and then coming back to England as an outsider, did give me an ability to see the country in a slightly detached way. I suppose I was made aware of what Englishness actually is because I only became immersed in it later in life.
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I kind of worry about that a little bit - we lost our film culture for 30 years because the Americans came in and bought up all the cinema chains and wouldn't show any Australian films.
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I love going to my supermarket. Sounds so rock 'n' roll, eh?
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I'd grown up doing children's theater there, and I always imagined myself being artistic director of a children's theater company.
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Choosing safety is a choice of life over career.
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If you attack the establishment long enough and hard enough, they will make you a member of it.
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'My father still reads the dictionary every day. He says your life depends on your power to master words.'
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As children, we have vivid imaginations. We stay up late waiting for Santa Claus, dream of becoming president, and have ideas that defy physics. Then something happens. As we grow older, we start editing our imagination.
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DNA was my only gold rush. I regarded DNA as worth a gold rush.
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You have to be willing to be afraid if you're going to be an artist.
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Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them.
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Changing anything in the past, if you believe it's possible, could alter the entire future of the world, including my own birth, so I'd change nothing. Not a thing. As for the future... I think I'd like to see how it all ends, which is probably why I write about the future apocalypse so frequently.
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Short ribs in the middle of a hamburger? That was pretty groundbreaking.
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If you start the day miserable, nobody else can screw up your day.
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Race and sexual preferences are two different things. One is behavior-related and preference-related, and one is something inherently - skin color, something obvious, that kind of stuff.
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The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign hands should be curtailed, lest Rome fall.
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Remember this: your body is your slave; it works for you.
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I never found either this or the Northern Shrike return to such prey for food. I have seen them alight on the same thorn bush afterwards, but never made any use of this kind of food.
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The way people communicate is changing, and no one knows this better than teens. We are using images to talk to each other, to communicate what we're doing, what we're thinking, and to tell stories.
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My first joint I smoked onstage in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. I smoked my first joint live.
