Tommy Bolin (Thomas Richard Bolin) Quotes
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There is no planning. On the night it is really great, it's euphoria and if it is not so great there is always tomorrow night. That was his attitude.
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Age for me is just a number.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.
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I don't try to just be a blues singer – I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.
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I remember doing one of those computer careers tests. It told me I'd make an ideal HGV lorry driver because I've got 100 per cent spatial awareness. I'd be able to back them into tight parking spots.
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The same parts of my brain get as excited as when I study bio or read a novel and write a paper on it.
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My heart is mysteriously alive in the world of sounds - a totally different dimension from the daily life.
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When I was a kid, I was super shy.
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What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!
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Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism in a different from, under a different flavour.
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Writing is the supreme solace.
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Life is precious, and when someone dies it's an opportunity to realise how precious it is. My brother drowned when I was 17. He was 15. I think I grew from that. My father didn't. It really crushed him.
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People say I am cheap, and I don't mind if they do.
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If you dunk your head in cold water, you can't stay under for more than five seconds. I mean, that's it.
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Sometimes I feel like a man; sometimes I feel like a child.
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All right, every day ain't going to be the best day of your life, don't worry about that. If you stick to it you hold the possibility open that you will have better days.
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No news at 4:30 a.m. is good.
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Seriously, I don't know if people would really tell you this. But in my dream world, the people who work for you would say, 'Wow, I didn't know I could do that until I started working with that guy.'
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You're basing your laws and your whole outlook on natural life on mythology. It won't work. That's why you have all these problems in the world. Name them: India, Pakistan, Ireland. Name them-all these problems. They're all religious problems.
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When I won't have work, say, after seven or eight years, or when I retire, I can't imagine leaving Hyderabad, because I love this city that much.
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The surface of American life looks smooth, prosperous, peaceful. But underneath, fault-line shifts in family and work life have led us into what some have called 'advanced insecurity.'
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I'd rather work than not.
