Tommy Shaw Quotes
I'm not the kind of guy who deserves to play a vintage guitar because I'm too rough on instruments.
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What I felt was, if you spend your life just writing fiction, you are going to falsify your material. And the fictional form was going to force you to do things with the material, to dramatize it in a certain way. I thought nonfiction gave one a chance to explore the world, the other world, the world that one didn't know fully.
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Quitting law school was the most difficult decision of my life. But I felt this great relief that this is my life and I can do what I want with it.
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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I do read some of the scripts from America and, even though the themes or subject of the film is very interesting, and some of the scenes are very interesting, there is a tendency that they have to explain everything. There will be no dilemma.
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I always hope to be a better person tomorrow than today.
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I don't want to sound obnoxious, but I like to think I brought it another step. I was able to bring people who were casually interested in boxing together.
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I went through a lot of phases and studied many religions. I am not into religion, I am spiritual.
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I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me.
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Fashion has a long interest in collaborative situations.
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Prestige is the shadow of money and power.
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In the long run, I believe that honesty is definitely the best policy. One can get away by being dishonest for a short term, but ultimately, honesty is what pays.
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Let's create a legal system that can work.
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To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
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Very often it's really inconvenient - who you fall in love with. You can't really control it.
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The sheriff is at the cash register, and if I don't get a hit soon, I don't know what I'll do.
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Dad always explained the car engine when he repaired it, and he had many technical books, so I was making electromagnets by age eight as well as reading my mother's medical and nursing books. I suspect I was born with a boundless curiosity, and this was encouraged through my childhood.
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We constantly had family conversations. A lot of conversations about life. We've always been a family to where we did everything together, whether it was karate or Bible study... I just really had a chance to look and learn.
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I don't find biology as interesting as politics and humanism. I talk more about existential stuff.
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In my latter years I've decided that there's too much to keep track of when you go into the lying game. That becomes stressful and it's not for me anymore.
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You learn to laugh at yourself, and you also lean on comedy as a crutch to kind of take the edge off because comedians often are self-deprecating, and they cross lines that they shouldn't. Stuff like that brings a smile to my face every once in a while when needed.
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You would be amazed what the ordinary guy knows.
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In 1967, I found out I was losing my hearing. I went 10 years without any help. I had otosclerosis - hardening of the bone in the middle of the ear.
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We knew that you don't get to be world champions without a struggle.
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I'm not the kind of guy who deserves to play a vintage guitar because I'm too rough on instruments.
