Tommy Bolin (Thomas Richard Bolin) Quotes
For me, practice isn't doing scales but doing things like writing, jamming with other people, or playing gigs.
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It's so necessary to try and record the cultural memory of people. To set it down for generations to come. To better understand where we are headed. The problem is, a good portion of what we choose to remember is about willed forgetting. Which we all do, I believe, to protect ourselves from what is too difficult.
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Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality.
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I have been fortunate that publications like the 'New York Times' and 'The Wall Street Journal' have allowed me to share some of my opinions with a wider audience.
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I like to relate to my kids as they are. I enjoy spending that time with them. I see that my girls are so completely different and different from me, too.
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Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
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Very often there's this misapprehension about actors being people that need to display themselves, to reveal themselves in public.
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We should seek to cooperate with Europe, not to divide Europe to a fictitious new and a fictitious old.
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We made music that wouldn't be in synch.
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There's also the tradition of voodoo, the Haitian magic arts, in New Orleans. And because New Orleans is below sea level, when they bury people in New Orleans, it's mostly above ground. So you have this idea that the spirits are more accessible and can access you more easily because they're not even buried.
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James Brown is important because he decorates the clock correctly and he's good with lower mathematics. Don't get me wrong – he's good.
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In short, we have, among African countries, a duty of solidarity.
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Status based on wealth is an old-fashioned idea; I find it repugnant, actually.
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Faced with the thoughts, the actions of a woman whom we love, we are as completely at a loss as the world's first natural philosophers must have been, face to face with the phenomena of nature, before their science had been elaborated and had cast a ray of light over the unknown.
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At least Bank of America got its name right. The ultimate Too Big to Fail bank really is America, a hypergluttonous ward of the state whose limitless fraud and criminal conspiracies we'll all be paying for until the end of time.
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I had done 12 little romance books, and I decided I wanted to move into crime fiction.
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I think I could totally be a gangster, but I could never be the kind of gangster that carries things out myself. I would have to be the kingpin that has my minions go and do the dirty bidding. I think I'd be pretty good at giving orders.
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I want to be a morning-talk-show host. I love Kelly Ripa's job. She gets to live in New York and has this amazing job hosting a talk show.
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Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one's innocence with the loss of one's prejudices.
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My agent will say, 'Well, it's another graphic novel.' I don't care. It's better writing than anything else that's out there. The characters are much better.
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I hate those e-books. They cannot be the future. They may well be.
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I'm in awful shape. I'm trying to get in better shape. My girlfriend, she's in good shape. She gives me health tips sometimes, like, 'Hannibal, you're going to die.' Stuff like that.
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The point of writing my name to you is that I see who you are, you see who I am... and that's what it's about.
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I took LSD and listened to Coltrane a lot; a lot of people did.
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For me, practice isn't doing scales but doing things like writing, jamming with other people, or playing gigs.
