Bobby Balderrama Quotes
I've never lost the passion for playing, but I've learned the realities of it all, and how hard it is. The music business is a tough business, but I would never tell anybody not to get into it. The first thing you have to have is the love of it and enjoy doing it. That's the most important part.
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I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.
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Growing up as a kid my father was British and a soccer player. His idol was a guy that passed the ball a lot, Stanley Matthews. Our family thought if you could be unselfish your teammates would always like you.
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Living in New York, for me at least, just keeps it very real and keeps my feet firmly planted on the ground.
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I try to live holistically and avoid conventional medicine.
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I'm very private in person. I'm very sensitive and shy with men individually. But when I'm talking, maybe there's this other channel or this other side and other way of working in my mind, and I convert and become carefree.
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You read a million scripts during pilot season, and most of them are not very good, so the good ones really shine.
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Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
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I had seen some films made about the underground music world in Tehran, and most of them were short documentaries about 30 or 40 minutes long. And I always wondered why they weren't publicized more. Really, their only flaw was they were short documentaries.
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I'm not going to say what was being used in the clubhouse; whatever happens in the clubhouse stays in the clubhouse. But it was not like it was in your face.
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Despite the strength of the feminist movement in the 1970s and beyond, a fable has persisted that educated women are rejected as marriage partners.
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Hearing my songs in public freaks me out a bit. There was one restaurant I really liked in L.A., but I had to stop going there when they started playing my music. It felt kinda awkward.
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I'm very involved in the writing on every level.
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If I didn't have a girlfriend, I'd have 10 girls at the studio, and they would make me not rap.
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I don't have a big career plan. I just like to see how things come out, and I just try to keep going in different directions.
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Tech is all about building human connections.
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It has been extraordinary, wonderful, I've been three feet off the ground since I made that first record.
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You will be courteous to your elders who have explored to the point from which you may advance; and helpful to your juniors who will progress farther by reason of your labors.
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Look, sometimes, no matter how hard you try, sometimes you need a bit of luck.
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I don't like being in debt, and I wouldn't borrow money for anything.
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An elephant funeral makes me weep every time, and so does an ad with a kid leaving home for college.
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The job of arguing with the umpire belongs to the manager, because it won't hurt the team if he gets thrown out of the game.
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You measure a government by how few people need help.
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I think every parent knows that, like, boys and girls are different. And we just don't take that into account in schools on those things like required reading lists. 'Cause that was my experience, say, with my son, who had to read 'Little House on the Prairie' when he was in third grade.
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I've never lost the passion for playing, but I've learned the realities of it all, and how hard it is. The music business is a tough business, but I would never tell anybody not to get into it. The first thing you have to have is the love of it and enjoy doing it. That's the most important part.
