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.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • People
  • Good
  • Believe

• Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality.

  

  Malcolm Boyd
  • Reality
  • Opinion
  • Touch

• When confronting most crises, whether historic or contemporary, aid agencies generally muddle along on a case-by-case basis. They weigh insufficient information, extrapolate somewhat blindly about long-term pros and cons, and reluctantly arrive at decisions meant to do the most good and the least harm.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Good
  • Long
  • Information

• I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Friends
  • American
  • Government

• 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.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Me
  • Wall
  • New York

• 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.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • Time
  • Different
  • Kids

• We're all interconnected. For example, a simple lack of fresh water can lead to population dislocation, which can lead to political radicalization, which can lead to great pressure on the states that receive refugees because of a migrating population.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Great
  • Political
  • Simple

• Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Money
  • Capitalism
  • Throw

• Very often there's this misapprehension about actors being people that need to display themselves, to reveal themselves in public.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • People
  • Need
  • Very

• We should seek to cooperate with Europe, not to divide Europe to a fictitious new and a fictitious old.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • New
  • Old
  • Seek

• We made music that wouldn't be in synch.

  

  Wayne Coyne
  • Music
  • Made
  • Synch

• 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.

  

  Sam Trammell
  • People
  • Magic
  • Sea

• 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.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • Good
  • Important
  • Wrong

• In short, we have, among African countries, a duty of solidarity.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Duty
  • Short
  • Solidarity

• Status based on wealth is an old-fashioned idea; I find it repugnant, actually.

  

  Ian Schrager
  • Idea
  • Find
  • Wealth

• 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.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • World
  • Nature
  • Science

• 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.

  

  Matt Taibbi
  • Time
  • America

• I had done 12 little romance books, and I decided I wanted to move into crime fiction.

  

  Janet Evanovich
  • Done

• 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.

  

  Elena Satine
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Giving

• 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.

  

  Ellie Kemper
  • Live
  • She
  • Job

• It's hard for us to imagine, as humans, that we'll become less powerful. But it'll be healthier for the planet and for the eco-system if that does happen. If humans are going to merge with machines, then let's get on with it. I love humans, but I also love dinosaurs - I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have wanted them to die out, either.

  

  Andrea Riseborough
  • Pretty
  • Die
  • Powerful

• People who have come from nothing and started their own business or opened up a whole new niche in a particular industry, they truly inspire me.

  

  Benjamin Stone
  • People
  • Business
  • Industry

• For me, practice isn't doing scales but doing things like writing, jamming with other people, or playing gigs.

  

  Tommy Bolin
  • People
  • Writing
  • Practice