Tommy Shaw Quotes
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I would convert to Judaism if the operation didn't hurt so much.
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I cannot determine what people or nations should do, but I do think that extremism gives birth to following and subsequent extremism.
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Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.
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In Bollywood, if you work with a superstar, even if you are a newcomer, you become a superstar. That didn't happen with me.
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I think, I think we need a Republican president from the real world to remind ourselves sometimes of what we need to do.
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I believe that there may be intelligent life on other planets.
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Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.
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I like that feeling of letting loose, of not planning every step. The best performances are the ones that you just let happen.
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I don't accept gifts from perfect strangers - but then, nobody's perfect.
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Being in Harlem on the night of Barack Obama's election was extraordinary. It was the best street party I have ever gone to, and it felt like the period of American history which began with slavery had ended that evening.
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If you look at any normal organization, the CEO is the person with the highest E.Q. The person with the highest IQ is often in the back room running the financials or the operations. That's topsy turvy.
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I grew up in the sixties watching B.B. King and Tito Puente and Miles Davis and Coltrane, everybody, Marvin Gaye, Jimi. And at the same time, with my left eye I was watching Dolores Huerta, Cesar Chavez, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Mother Teresa.
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I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.
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This result was confirmed by different researchers using various experimental arrangements.
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You're always facing the top defenders in this league. To go out there and do your best, that's all you can ask for.
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I'm an outsider.
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The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.
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The most High approveth not the gifts of the wicked.
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I want to keep on progressing. I definitely think acting is a long process to be one of the greats like Morgan Freeman or Jack Nicholson.
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Adele is another problem. I never said that she was fat. I said that she was a little roundish; a little roundish is not fat. But for such a beautiful girl... after that she lost eight kilos [17.6 pounds] so I think the message was not that bad.
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I love stretching in the morning. It's the first thing I do when I wake up because getting a good back-crack is so extremely satiating. I feel taller when I finally stand.
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Never lend people money you can't afford to give them as a gift.
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We're kind of defined by our mistakes.
