Hamid Drake Quotes
When I play with people, one of the first rules is to listen. Just by the near fact that you listen and you're open to listening, or you're listening and you're open to what this other person is doing. Also you going to be open to what you're doing and you're not going to have it like planned out.
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I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.
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I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.
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I love working the legislative process.
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I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong.
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When I'm making music, I can hear all the parts, all the instruments. I can hear what it should be.
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I'm associated with gospel music in the minds of millions of people.
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I went from 118 pounds to 135 pounds in a few months. But, I still didn't know anything about food.
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When confronting most crises, whether historic or contemporary, aid agencies generally muddle along on a case-by-case basis. They weigh insufficient information, extrapolate somewhat blindly about long-term pros and cons, and reluctantly arrive at decisions meant to do the most good and the least harm.
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I think Bush has a very selfish, arrogant point of view. I think he is interested in power, I think he believes his truth is the only truth, and that he will do what he wants to do despite the people.
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In the past, human society provided encouragement and opportunity for people to extend support to each other, especially in highly stressful situations.
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The chemistry that you get from living with your band and creating music and recording with your band translates to the stage.
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To these ideals which were instilled in me when I was a youth, I attribute in a large degree the success that was mine on the bicycle tracks of the world.
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I'm over it. You strive to win a Super Bowl and you do everything you can to get there. But being in the Hall of Fame, you never play for that honor. It's incredible.
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I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized.
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I feel exhausted if I teach too long.
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It's easier to poke holes in an idea than think of ways to fill them. And it's easier to focus on the 100 reasons you shouldn't do something rather than the one reason you should.
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Helen Mirren is like the sexiest woman on the planet to me. She is. Just the way she goes about everything.
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I don't think God cares what you put in your body or on your body.
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Chicago gave me more music than any other city in America.
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It seems to me there is a change in what audiences want to see. I can only hope that's correct, because there's an awful lot of people of my age around now and we outnumber the others.
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One of the big ways in which I felt my own writing life shaped by recovery had to do with my relationship to other people's stories. And one of the things I loved most about recovery was the way in which, in meetings and through fellowship, you are constantly kind of paying attention to lives outside of your own.
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People en masse have always been wonderful to me. I truly have a great love for an audience...I want to give them two hours of just pow.
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When I play with people, one of the first rules is to listen. Just by the near fact that you listen and you're open to listening, or you're listening and you're open to what this other person is doing. Also you going to be open to what you're doing and you're not going to have it like planned out.
