Tommy Shaw Quotes
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I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid.
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I have to be realistic about what I can and can't do. So whatever I do has to really be worth it. I like to master the things I do.
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I'm the C.E.O., nominated by the shareholders. If they're not happy, I have to take the consequences.
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I am genuinely into soul, R&B and hip hop - all these genres that get slapped under the 'soul' genre. That spoke to me more than it did to my punk-rock friends. And punk spoke more to me than it did to my soul friends. I basically didn't fit comfortably in either world.
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In my industry, it's important to have people I look to for different things: guidance, inspiration and motivation.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
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I grew up outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in a little town, and went to a regular high school. I was a... very average student in that high school. Then I joined the Navy, and while I was in the Navy, I was in a motorcycle accident and woke up deaf in a hospital.
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Too often, we think that, when we have a problem with our lives or our country, that the way to fix it is to take an eye for an eye. That doesn't help anything or anyone.
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Honestly, I try and stay away from what's been written about me, because if you let that stuff get to you and it's not true it can drive you crazy. One thing that I have heard recently which is not true, I didn't say it, is that I believe I was quote saying 'I will never take my shirt off for a movie again.' I didn't say that.
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I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.
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True Yankees fans know an up-and-coming player when they see one.
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To create a nice relationship with an ex, the love has to change form. I think you just have to put your children first.
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Every time you pass a law, it is a little bite out of freedom.
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Fitness has always been one of the top priorities in my life because that's the way I grew up, with soccer being the sport of choice.
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There's something sort of intrinsic in being a Southerner that doesn't go away. You can't get rid of it, but it's not something that's terribly obvious.
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I don't think anyone really is interested in reading about my emotional state. It's not even interesting to me.
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Well I think that, if you want to look at polarizing people right now, I wouldn't look at Palin, I'd look at Barack Obama.
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Joy requires one to be awake, Adjusting the heart's ambience to bright. Some prefer the dark, as is their right, On grounds of agony, and to forsake Not only bliss, but all that's blessed by light.
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One of the pillars of backward thinking in America is the idea that you can have jobs or you can have clean air and water, but you can't have both. That myth has been busted a thousand times, but still it lives on.
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The great moment I think in human consciousness is when you realize that the object in front of you is perhaps not nameable or is new, it does not fit a stereotype, and so you need to reconfigure your whole structure of knowledge to account for it.
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No matter how unfriendly you are you have always listened to my requests. Your kindness is always saving me.
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When I became 16 I started thinking seriously about singing.
