Tommy Bolin (Thomas Richard Bolin) Quotes
I used to listen a lot to Rolling Stones records and play along with them when I was first starting. It's a good way to learn, jamming around basic music.
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I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.
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You would never see me driving around in a sports car. I feel like you're so low and squish-able by transport trucks.
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Australia has a very big history of incarceration. What does that mean to us? What does it mean that we came over to a country that's not necessarily ours and filled it with white prisoners?
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My parents would have loved it if my brother or I had become a doctor or lawyer.
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It's interesting having a son. Someone told me that it's good when you have a son first because when you have a daughter first and then a son, you think your son's slow. A lot of parents freak out because they've seen a daughter progress so quickly, and they think their male child is, like, damaged. But boys are just naturally slow.
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I try to write down every song that comes to me, even though I know that every song that comes to me isn't a song that I need to sing.
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If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.
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We're not a fragile people. We're not a frightful people. Our power doesn't come from some self-declared savior promising that he alone can restore order as long as we do things his way. We don't look to be ruled.
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Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
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If I were a customer, and I was given a dish with peppers, I would hate it. I also don't like blood sausage.
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I like to play board games a lot with my girl, things like that. We attempt to cook. And even if it goes wrong, it doesn't matter because it's the time you spend doing it that's important.
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You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.
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Russian hacking of the DNC is a problem, not a scandal.
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Unjust Cause: This art is worth more than ten thousand staters, that one should choose the worse cause, and nevertheless be victorious. (tr. Hickie 1853, vol. 1, Perseus)
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I don't think if you asked any of my childhood friends they would say that I had a weird childhood; they might say there weren't a lot of regular rules, the conversations in the house were always very open, dreams were a great thing to talk about, everybody was making something all the time.
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Hey, you've got the girl, I've got the picture. That's fair, right?
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We feel that this stands as a symbol of the insatiable curiosity of all mankind to explore the unknown.
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It is thought and feeling which guides the universe, not deeds.
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If I hadn't gone through some of the painful experiences in my life, I would not be me.
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You can't describe the feeling of being in love - when you meet someone who makes you a better person.
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Philosophy begins with wonder.
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I used to listen a lot to Rolling Stones records and play along with them when I was first starting. It's a good way to learn, jamming around basic music.
