Tommy Bolin (Thomas Richard Bolin) Quotes
I came in with a completely new perspective. I would write songs and they would pick tunes they felt were in the Purple vein.
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I think I would have a better time writing films rather than directing.
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The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
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If you take shortcuts, you get cut short.
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Obama is a great man who's just beginning to understand the realities. And I'm not just saying that because he reads my books. I would have voted for him anyway.
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Low interest rates are a big opportunity for investment. But the issue is that this money should go to the real economy, not the financial economy.
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When you've got children, it's easy to do that thing of keeping a tally of who woke up earliest and whose turn it is to put them to bed. But I think the important thing is to appreciate and love each other and to show that appreciation.
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The kind of thing I'm good at is knowing every politician in the state and remembering where he itches. And I know where to scratch him.
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I have always done exercise because I was a dancer, and it is probably good for you. I have done yoga consistently.
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There are a million 'oughts' in the world. There's a million ways in which I ought to be serving the world. But the ways I'm gifted to serve and the opportunities that come to me to serve are not a million.
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Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
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Triple tonguing? It was sort of invented. It wasn't in the script. It was something that I came up with.
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We will explore the mysteries of science and harness the power of technology and innovation. We will realise the opportunities of the digital world. Our youth will learn more from - and with - each other.
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High gas prices are eating away at consumer's disposal income and could lead to a further economic downturn, especially for those whose livelihood depend on gasoline and diesel fuel.
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Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of health and self-esteem, not its cause.
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Seattle sucks. New York and Chicago are real cities. Seattle is Dubuque, Iowa, putting on airs. People here think Seattle is Paris... it ain't. I've been to Paris, and this place isn't Paris.
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You put a disk here and then you put another disk that is a triangle at the other end and then you balance them on your finger and keep on adding. I don't use rectangles - they stop. You can use them; I have at times, but only when I want to block, to constipate movement.
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I get a very vague idea and - perhaps because I once was a journalist, or perhaps because that's what made me want to be a journalist - I go off and explore it for a bit, rather than mapping out a plot and then filling in the research.
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You can't manufacture a career as an actor because you aren't in control of what projects come to you, unless you are No. 1, two, three or four in the world.
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Free trade, far from protectionism, is the path that we should take to make Latin America a thriving actor in the global economy.
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I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.
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God spoke to you by so many voices but you would not hear.
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Perhaps the greatest challenge for the resolution of a systemic global bank is the possibility that public or private actors in different countries might take local actions that would cause the overall resolution to spin out of control.
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Settings are obviously important - and as a writer, you have to respect what was real at the time of the story you're writing. But the real key to success lies in finding the right characters to carry that story.
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I came in with a completely new perspective. I would write songs and they would pick tunes they felt were in the Purple vein.
