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 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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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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It's hard to understand the athlete's lifestyle. You literally eat, sleep, train. You go to training camps in the winter where there is no Internet, you can't make phone calls.
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Team competition is my priority.
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All women love semi-rape. They love to be taken.It was his sweet brutality against my bruised body that made his act of love so piercingly wonderful.
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I can't help who I fall in love with.
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I have thought it my duty to exhibit things as they are, not as they ought to be.
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Robert Mapplethorpe, I met in 1967. He was a student at Pratt, though even as a student a fully formed artist. We went through many things in our life together. He became my loved one, then my best friend.
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My first joint I smoked onstage in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. I smoked my first joint live.
