Steven Siro Vai Quotes
I was always one of those guys who was a seeker after truth. I want to know what's going on.
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There are two types of people in the world. People who like kids, and people who don't. People who complain about kids screaming on aeroplanes and in restaurants, and those people who love kids and enjoy their energy and enjoy hearing the noise they make and get off on their energy. I am one of those people who happens to love kids.
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I am getting to that age where I am too old to play the boy next door and too young to play Uncle Fester.
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During the late '20s my father left us. My mother was in a complete hole with no money, and we were evicted.
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There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't been allowed to conceive before.
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Youth all over the world are very hungry to succeed.
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We begin to change the world when we stimulate long-term prosperity using technology. There is not a problem that's large enough that innovation and entrepreneurship can't solve.
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I wanted to go to college and play football.
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Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.
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The war on drugs has made government more powerful, citizens less free, and hasn't helped users or addicts.
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On a Friday night in 1983, I was in a taxi in New York riding home from dinner with friends. A drunk driver ran a red light and hit the cab, and I was thrown toward the glass partition. I tried to duck, but my face hit the glass, and the impact fractured my cheekbone, my eye socket, my collarbone and several ribs.
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There was a time for German stars in the 1950s with Curt Jurgens, Hardy Kruger, O. W. Fischer, and Maria Schell. That was a totally different generation. It all ended in 1968 during the big students' movement in my country. It was an anti-authority movement that changed everything. All my country's hierarchies, morals and values were questioned.
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I'm not courting labor. I come from a labor background. To me, it's just intuitive.
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My reading of philosophy and history is desultory; I know so much and yet so little.
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Nobody in my family was musical. I had no idea you could be a songwriter and make a living at it. It was all discovery. It was all just thrown at me.
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Many occasions I've sat down with Israelis to say, where do you see your country in 10 years time, and work me back, so we can figure out the synergies and the connections between Israel and the rest of the Arab world. No Israeli has ever been able to answer that question.
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Do you know that people fall in love in war and go to school and go to factories and hospitals and get divorced and go dancing and go playing and live life?
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I don't like the 'must', the 'always', and the 'never' words. I don't like 'no' either.
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I was only 23 and just out of college when I filmed 'Casualty' and so nervous, but it was brilliant fun. I was really lucky, and it really helped my career.
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I spent my entire childhood in an environment in which the mighty of the earth had no place outside story books and dreams.
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The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this.
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I was number one in the ratings four times last year and twice this season. What could be more damn equal than that? If they get any more equal, I don't want it.
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We must not lose sight of the fundamental issue of policy which is that people who come to the country on visa status must never be abused.
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Wishy-washy equivocations - and not just on abortion, but on immigration, on civil rights, on income inequality - weaken all of us.
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I was always one of those guys who was a seeker after truth. I want to know what's going on.
