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 aint got all that many regrets. I could imagine lots of things that you might think would make a man happier. I think by the time you're grown you're as happy as you're goin to be. You'll have good times and bad times, but in the end you'll be about as happy as you was before. Or as unhappy. I've knowed people that just never did get the hang of it.
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I'm not big on rap, to be honest. I just don't get it. It's angry people shouting. I like a song, melodies, people singing.
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When I'm writing, I separate from everyone. Even my band. I push myself, and I'm alone with my thoughts. Separating from friends and comforts and family lets you think a lot deeper about subject matter. Working alone drives me a little crazy, but it makes the writing as honest as possible.
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Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.
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The only thing that makes me uncomfortable is when people that do drink, don't drink around me.
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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.
