Tommy Shaw Quotes
I was born in Alabama and my first live music experiences were in church. Every Sunday we watched regional gospel groups on television singing their hearts out.
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America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.
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Science fiction frees you to go anyplace and examine anything.
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I never thought I wouldn't succeed. Not because I thought I was good-looking - I just thought I would make it.
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The political system is not for the people. The people are secondary to the economy. It's about what generates money, not about what benefits the people.
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I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
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The first Indy was definitely the one I remember. It's my favorite race I've ever done. It's the most memorable race I've ever done, for sure. Even more than when I won. I just remember everything about it.
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Every character I've ever played, I always try to take him right to the edge and not allow him to fall over, but directors have a tendency to pull me back a little bit.
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If you don't ponder the end of the world on a regular basis, I don't think you're really human.
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In the South, there was absence of any leadership corresponding in breadth and courage to that of Abraham Lincoln.
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I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.
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Those who speak up, those who use their connections, are more likely to succeed than those who sit and wait.
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I don't believe that human beings are necessarily monogamous.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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The end of confession is to tell the truth to and for oneself.
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As long as I was well fed, I was a very, very nice child. I just used my imagination and played with Barbies. I was pretty easy.
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Economics has paid a terrible price for its dalliances with the Keynesian and neoclassical theories.
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I'm not 'Will's brother' anymore. Will is my brother. I'm paving the way for all middle children out there.
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In Europe, the big word is tolerance. You tolerate everything.
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By the way, the point between rationality and what we would call the irrational is a very difficult point to establish. There's no specific line, as you know.
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The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.
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With any show, when fans come up to you, they assume you're just like your character.
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As Man alone, Jesus could not have saved us; As God alone, He would not; Made flesh, He could and did.
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I was born in Alabama and my first live music experiences were in church. Every Sunday we watched regional gospel groups on television singing their hearts out.
