Tommy Shaw Quotes
I don't write on tour. There is so much to do day in and day out when you are on the road.
Quotes to Explore
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The presence and the present of America are a future; our continent is, by its nature, the land which does not exist on its own, but as something which is created and invented.
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My attitude is govern as if you've run your last race. That's not to say I've run my last race, but govern with a liberation and a freedom; change your mind frame to operate that way.
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The fact that we live in a world where black people have to strategize so they're not brutalized by police is insane.
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I love heavy music. I keep Flume nice and melodic, so I save the angry, testosterone-fueled heavy stuff for What So Not. I think it's a good defining thing for the two projects.
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A lot of people said I was a rebel. I wasn't.
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I'll have the chance to do a production number on A Capitol Fourth.
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I don't know that on-demand sports is remarkably better than live sports.
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I love, personally, the experience of going to the theater, going to the cinema.
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If the colonists hadn't rejected British militarism and the massive financial burden of maintaining the British military, America wouldn't exist.
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We wanted to describe society from our Left point of view. Per had written political books, but they'd only sold 300 copies. We realised that people read crime and through the stories we could show the reader that under the official image of welfare-state Sweden there was another layer of poverty, criminality and brutality.
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Nobody else is stupid enough to get themselves into the straits that I get into.
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If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man.
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Life rarely presents fully finished photographs. An image evolves, often from a single strand of visual interest - a distant horizon, a moment of light, a held expression.
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The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.
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I'm never running for office. I love being able to speak to members of Congress or members of the Senate and floating on either side, because it takes all of us. It's going to take both of them.
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And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.
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The musical has always been in jeopardy - until - or was in jeopardy until it was realised that it is probably the safest living theatre art form.
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I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.
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Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.
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What is man, when you come to think upon him, but a minutely set, ingenious machine for turning, with infinite artfulness, the red wine of Shiraz into urine?
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I'm fiercely patriotic, and the flag and the anthem is something that I really, really respect.
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I think we have a culture that creates heroes and then needs to knock them down, and then you have to see what the third act brings.
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Mostly I sat down and said, 'I'm not going to write a boring story.' And that actually, surprisingly, solves most of your problems.
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I don't write on tour. There is so much to do day in and day out when you are on the road.
