Tommy Bolin (Thomas Richard Bolin) Quotes
A lot of things just got distorted, like stories about each other. After the tour we never talked. I believe a band should be a band.
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I ended the war a horse ahead.
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I'm crazy about the Coen brothers, I'm crazy about Sean Penn. I love the usual suspects like Susan Sarandon, Meryl Streep and people like that.
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We go after legacies because we just know that, sooner or later, people will understand what we bring to this culture and bring to the game.
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I don't think paper will go away. I do believe that the value of paper will change, and Xerox is working on changing that value. Consider a color page. Actual life is in color, but you keep reproducing it in black and white. You remove value. It's a bad thing to do.
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I am an advocate of education. It is the panacea for all that ails us in our society.
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In most daily journalism, you only fact-check something if it seems a little fishy.
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Science is the pursuit of pure truth, and the systematizing of it.
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People like to hear songs that they can dance to. Even if they're sitting, they like being made to want to dance and move. By me being a dancer, I know how I'd dance at certain tempos. I was always good at it.
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I think the PC will continue to be around for a long, long time to come. We see a new range of products evolving around the PC, but it's not going away.
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My heroes are the camera crew and the electricians. They work such long hours.
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Jack Nicklaus is the greatest winner I've ever seen.
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Sometimes people think Y Combinator has big ideas about themes. But really, we just fund the best startups.
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Regardless of how it's done, transaction costs will continue to plummet as computers get more powerful. Low transaction costs are a wonderful thing if you're in the transaction business. They're wonderful for consumers too, making it cheaper and easier to buy things and creating new things to buy.
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My dad and my mom were big Nat King Cole fans, so they had everything he did.
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I was being hated for about 40 or 50 years by the whole world, but it did not destroy me, and it did not ruin my health. And the reason is because I just did not answer them. I had my own life.
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The idea of fighting your new girlfriend's ex-lovers, 'Street Fighter' style, is the ultimate geek wish-fulfilment.
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I can't change the way I am … but if I offended you, good. Cause I still don't give a fuck.
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The rich man... is always sold to the institution which makes him rich.
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I am devoted to my two children, who are far and away more important to me than anything.
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In every conversation I've had - with housewives in Mumbai, with middle-class people, upper-class, in the slums - everyone says there is an underlying consciousness of karma. That people believe in karma - that what you're putting out is going to come back. If I do something to you, the energy of it is going to come back to me in the future.
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Jamque comes semper magnorum prima malorumsaeva fames aderat.
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I just started writing for my own amusement and occasionally singing in little clubs around Los Angeles. Then I wrote 'The Rose,' and through a series of divine things that I had no control over and had no idea were going to happen, it got in the movie, and that changed everything.
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A lot of things just got distorted, like stories about each other. After the tour we never talked. I believe a band should be a band.
