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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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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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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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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I focus a little more on pacing when I write books in the young adult category, and of course there's the great American fear of anything sexual, so that's somewhat backed off in YA.
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I'm envious of actors. You shoot a movie or you do a season of 'Big Love,' and then you're on hiatus and you have a bunch of free time.
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They don't like anyone who isn't Korean, and they don't like each other all that much, either. They're hardheaded, hard-drinking, tough little bastards, 'the Irish of Asia'.
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3D printing is going to transform our societies, our freedoms and our sense of security.
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I think, at the end of the day, when you hear the same voice all the time, it goes in one ear and out the other when you're a player.
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You are not your body. It is just something you wear for a while, because living in the earthplane is infinitely more meaningful and more involved if you are encased in its trappings and subject to its rules.
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It's a new situation. Of course, you have always the goal for years to go there and to reach the top, but then if you are there, you actually don't know what to expect.
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I'd rather work than not.
