Jeff Waters Quotes
I have a great band and a great crew and once you’ve done this for as long as I have every time you go on tour you have this template to work with where you have a thousand things to do to get out on the road.
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I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.
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Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him.
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I've always thought of myself as a character actor, even though I've played some leading-man roles.
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I cannot remember a time when the question of why people behave as they do was not intensely interesting to me. The desire to understand was very important. When I was young, I was aware of the fact that much of the time, the reasons a person gave for his actions were not the actual reasons.
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I don't work out and be healthy and want a strong body because I want to look good in a bikini. I do all of those things for me and for my health. I'm not going on the cover of 'Maxim' and 'FHM' because that's not me.
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I could do a franchise for the end of everything. 'The End of Dogs,' 'The End of Cats.'
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I wish that television would stop selling our hatred of ourselves, and start seducing us with our love of ourselves.
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To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry.
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I made nothing happen very slowly.
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The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do.
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Do not imagine that what we have said of the insufficiency of our understanding and of its limited extent is an assertion founded only on the Bible: for philosophers likewise assert the same, and perfectly understand it,- without having regard to any religion or opinion.
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I never make a trip to the United States without visiting a supermarket. To me they are more fascinating than any fashion salon.
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I think that fame only goes to your head if you are not a real artist. If you are a real artist and a good person who loves what they are doing, you are going to be the same person.
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In 'For Whom the Bell Tolls,' Hemingway cozies up to revolution by romanticizing it (and not only with those execrable love scenes).
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The United States, a signatory to the Chemical Weapons Convention, destroyed the last of its stocks of VX and other chemical agents on the Johnston Atoll, 825 miles southwest of Hawaii, in November 2000.
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If you work out 20 minutes a day in some way, you're going to see changes.
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I like most of the Humphrey Bogart movies because they had to act then, and they acted very well. Edward G. Robinson is probably the best actor I've ever seen on the movies.
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Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy.
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If you chomp down too hard on my work, you're going to break your teeth.
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A lot of writing I do on tour. I do a lot on airplanes. At home, I write a lot, obviously. When I write a song, what I usually do is work the lyric out first from some basic idea that I had, and then I get an acoustic guitar and I sit by the tape recorder and I try to bang it out as it comes.
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A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.
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The terrorists' only rules? That there are no rules, and this gives them a major advantage.
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I have a great band and a great crew and once you’ve done this for as long as I have every time you go on tour you have this template to work with where you have a thousand things to do to get out on the road.
