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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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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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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The music I was making for people not to dance to was the one they were dancing to.
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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My parents encouraged us to commit to things, so if we wanted to learn an instrument, it was all the grades and all the theory.
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I would really love to collaborate with Gwen Stefani and M.I.A.; artists that kind of make sense with me vocally. And in terms of style, I'm a very visual artist. I really love Pharell. I love people that really care about drums, and I like beat-heavy.
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I know that, as a comedian, I've made great strides because I've worked as hard as a person can work at being at least wildly amusing.
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Novels by British writers are among my favorites because our family has enjoyed travel in England and because they are written with an economy of words as if they were written with a pen instead of a computer. Penelope Fitzgerald is a favorite.
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Virtue must shape itself in deed.
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Those who insist that a Church program exist for every contingency and need are as much in error as their counterparts who demand that government intervene in every aspect of our lives. In both instances the ideal balance is destroyed with a resultant detriment to human progress.
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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.
