Tommy Bolin (Thomas Richard Bolin) Quotes
When I first colored my hair, my mother loved it. I got kicked out of school when I was 15, just for my hair.
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If there's a strange way to do something, I would certainly like to know about it. I feel that I owe that to my public.
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I have definitely worked on that... being efficient and also being smarter with my pressure.
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Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter what you say.
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When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?
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I'm a big sports fan - mainly basketball.
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I have a rebellious teenage thing. If my mom says I can't do it, I'm gonna do it. But I'm pretty good. That's why it was fun to play Sam in 'The Bling Ring.' I got to be someone crazy and wild to the extreme, then go home and relax and get rid of the burden.
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Because pandemics almost always begin with the transmission of an animal microbe to a human, it's work that takes me all around the globe - from rain forest hunting camps of central Africa to wild animal markets of east Asia.
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Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute.
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Vanity can create a very cruel space for you if you don't know how to manage it.
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I wrote my novel 'Bitter Greens' as the creative component of a Doctorate of Creative Arts and am now looking at the history of the Rapunzel tale as my theoretical component.
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When team members trust each other and know that everyone is capable of admitting when they're wrong, then conflict becomes nothing more than the pursuit of truth or the best possible answer.
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It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members.
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It's not my goal to be a famous actor.
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I am devoted to my husband and son. I am devoted to the practices and rituals that imbue our lives with a sense of meaning and purpose, that help me to live my days in the most emotionally and intellectually productive manner. I am devoted to the idea of devotion itself.
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I do not like being famous. I like being normal.
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I've become very, very liberal as far as war is concerned. It's just too terrible. I've been to wars and I've seen what happens. I know what it is to be hurt, and it's nothing compared to these guys. To be blind for the rest of your life. To have prosthetic limbs.
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God may not guide us in an obvious way because he wants us to make decisions based on faith and character.
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What happened in Queensland is that people are facing high unemployment relative to other states - 5.7 per cent when I last checked.
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I had an ethnic preference, if you will, for the warm weather, coming from Chennai. So I finally said, 'Look, can I move to California?' because every time I come here, it would be in the 70s or 80s, and there would be beautiful blue sky and warm.
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All my life I'm trying to go forward and trying to grow.
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I love boats. Anything that runs, anything mechanical. It's my God-given passion in life.
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The problem with venality in business is that getting outraged about it makes it easy to miss the systemic problems that venality often disguises.
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I also became close to nature, and am now able to appreciate the beauty with which this world is endowed.
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When I first colored my hair, my mother loved it. I got kicked out of school when I was 15, just for my hair.
