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.

Tommy Bolin

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• Perspective
• Purple
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• Tunes

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Star Wars, the original movie, was all the various old genre of pictures: the swashbucklers, the war movies, all those things were put n there in a different look.

  

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• I'm sure they will do better than I did. I was alone. They are a duo supported by better technology.

  

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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.

  

  Tommy Bolin
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Perspective