Steven Siro Vai Quotes
I didn't have any aspirations of becoming famous or successful; in fact I was scared to death of all that. I remember somebody once said that if a rock musician goes on tour, he goes insane. I was very impressionable and I carried this useless weight of fear around with me about going on tour, all because of this thing somebody said.Steven Siro Vai Alcatrazz
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You honestly can't go wrong with All Saints. I live in their leather!
Mallory Jansen -
In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
Salvador Dali -
Winning the gold medal should have been the happiest day of my entire life, and it just wasn't. It felt like the saddest day of my life. Everyone was so angry with us, that Scott and I had fallen in love, because it was so unprofessional, and we were a disgrace and had betrayed everybody.
Victoria Pendleton -
I'll tell you, in my life I've never once have seen a Hispanic panhandler, because in our community, it would be viewed as shameful to be out on the street begging. Those are all conservative values - faith, family, hard work, responsibility.
Ted Cruz -
I loved theatre and did magic, too, but I was never the best at it - there was never a teacher saying, 'You're great, you have to make this your career!' I was good at science and math. I figured I'd go into science and become a dentist.
Nathan Fielder -
Ever since Romanticism, an oppositional mode, artists have the right, and indeed the duty, to attack social convention. But it is ridiculous and in fact self-infantilizing for them to expect to be financially supported by the general public whom they are insulting.
Camille Paglia
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There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.
C. S. Lewis -
People are intrigued when they discover you date a footballer - women especially.
Zoe Foster Blake -
Reverence is fatal to literature.
E. M. Forster -
When you're in a band, it's like everyone's the CEO, and anyone could destroy it at any moment.
Jack Antonoff Fun. -
I wanted to experience New York, to look up and see buildings.
Haile Gebrselassie -
Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.
Edsger Dijkstra
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I like the idea of acting. Of all these things I've done, sometimes I think I've done well, and sometimes I think I didn't do well, but they are more cameos, and I come in and be crazy.
Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers -
I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
Yusef Komunyakaa -
Economic growth is important. But we cannot count on economic growth alone to fund the public education system our children need and deserve.
Kate Brown -
We have lost a lot of ground to the extremists in the Middle East.
Najib Razak -
Foreign universities have two aspects - content and brand. If we focus on the brand, we could lose out on the content. The idea is to focus on the content.
Pallam Raju -
The philosophy of life is this: Life is not a struggle, not a tension... Life is bliss. It is eternal wisdom, eternal existence.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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If I was a cabinetmaker or a commercial fisherman, it would be the same question - how to connect to my world. The job we do affords us the opportunity to have people listen to what we say. But a lot of people have a similar situation: They're trying to find a way to do some good.
Edwin Farnham Butler III Arcade Fire -
We're not trying to be the only route into teaching. We do put enormous energy into understanding what differentiates the most successful teachers.
Wendy Kopp -
This hook nose and crab meister attitude has gotten me every job I've ever had. And more divorces than I care to remember.
Norman Fell -
Because he is a special kind of keeper. A suzerain rules even where there are other rulers. His authority countermands local judgments. - The judge.
Cormac McCarthy -
I think a lot of Indians want Indian artists to be cultural cheerleaders rather than cultural investigators.
Sherman Alexie -
I didn't have any aspirations of becoming famous or successful; in fact I was scared to death of all that. I remember somebody once said that if a rock musician goes on tour, he goes insane. I was very impressionable and I carried this useless weight of fear around with me about going on tour, all because of this thing somebody said.
Steven Siro Vai Alcatrazz