Tommy Lee (Thomas Lee Bass) Quotes
No one really buys records anymore. You can look at sales and do that math real quick. Unfortunately, it's fast food in the music industry. People don't ingest full records anymore.
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If you want to change things, it requires bravery.
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Anyone can call himself a promoter. Anyone can call himself a promoter and stage a fight. Unlike other professional sports, whose owners collude out of mutual interest in their sport's image and general welfare, there are no real alliances or partnerships in boxing.
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When you live in L.A., it is easy to stay fit, as the weather is amazing.
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Mum's a worrier, she looked after everybody apart from herself - I think it runs in the family.
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In every walk of life, you must have leaders. An education in the spiritual world, in the labor field, in the agricultural field, we must have leaders.
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It seems to me that one of the things that happened with a lot of literary fiction in the 1980s and 1990s was that it became very concerned with the academy and less with how people live their lives. We got to a point where the crime novel stepped into the breach. It was also a time when the crime novel stopped being so metropolitan.
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I always loved Sam Cooke, because he seemed very versatile. He sang gospel, soul, blues, pop music.
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I always loved art shows at schools. My friends with kids would go, and I would go with them. It's some of my favorite art... It's more about creativity than the grand statement of an agenda.
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I had maybe heard 'The Times Are A-Changing' on the radio, but I had no idea who Dylan was. No idea.
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I'd love to do a film with Michael Fassbender. He's one of my heroes. I think he's absolutely amazing and I would love to do a project with him.
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That's what makes writer's block so painful. You think the well has run dry, maybe somewhere in the heavens the tap has been turned off. That's beyond frightening.
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Five years ago, people were crying and feeling the Japanese were about to take over the Earth. I don't hear that kind of talk anymore.
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People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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It will take a long time for women's effect on politics to register so that we may properly appraise it.
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We live in America. We live in a free society where we are able to make choices. It's about giving individuals freedoms and holding them accountable.
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Throughout my career I've played a lot of parts that might've been played by a man. They're human roles rather than specifically men or women. I've never been as hooked into that as a lot of women are, you know, like, 'There aren't enough roles for women.' There aren't necessarily a lot of good roles for anybody.
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I can do something else besides stuff a ball through a hoop. My biggest resource is my mind.
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I see so much more than I used to see. The effect has been to depress and sadden and hurt me terribly.
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Record labels have enjoyed a 100-year monopoly of selling plastic and now they're up against a different format.
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I've got time, I hope, to make lots of quiet records. So quiet you won't be able to hear them.
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School librarians play such an enormous role in bringing children to books they are going to enjoy. It's a magic alchemy when that works.
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Hip-hop gave a generation a common ground that didn't require either race to lose anything; everyone gained.
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No one really buys records anymore. You can look at sales and do that math real quick. Unfortunately, it's fast food in the music industry. People don't ingest full records anymore.
