Rick Allen Quotes
Chasing the sensation. Whether it was drugs or sex or whatever. Those things had become my main focus in life.
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The next step in my life is hopefully meeting a nice guy and getting married.
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I think how Chicago plays a role in my life - it had such a role in my youth and the decisions that I made as a kid and formulated who I am as an artist early on.
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Liberalism is assisting quality of life, whatever you may choose.
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My father was in Congress when I was born. He was mayor my whole life from when I was in grade school - first grade - to when I went away to college.
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I think that we all stand on the dartboard of life. Roughly 30,000 people a year are going to catch a dart labeled pancreatic cancer, and that's unfortunate. It's not what I would have chosen. But I in no way feel like I deserved it.
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A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.
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I've always been singing all my life, but I started playing guitar when I was 19, and that was my final year in university, in law school. I think that happened when I started making a lot of friends who were in the independent music scene.
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I'm very laid back, easy. There's nothing better in life than seeing your kids do well.
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I don't know if my work is a concerted effort to make kids sad! But life and death go hand in hand. It's our condition as human beings.
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I'm a part of your life. You might not know it, but I am.
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New experiences give you new perspectives on life.
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Infant mortality and life expectancy are reasonable indicators of general well-being in a society.
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Being inexhaustible, life and nature are a constant stimulus for a creative mind.
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Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.
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I could sit right here and have a 15-minute conversation with somebody and change their whole life.
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I wrote my second novel, 'A Little Life,' in what I still think of as a fever dream: For 18 months, I was unable to properly concentrate on anything else.
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It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, 'I don't know.'
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If we knew exactly what animal life was like before the fall into sin and knew what nature was like before the law of entropy invaded it, we would already be living in heaven.
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Having spent 37 years of my life in the military as a reservist, and never having met a gay in all of that time, and never having even talked about it in all those years, I just thought, why the hell shouldn't they serve? They're American citizens. As long as they're not doing things that are harmful to anyone else... So I came out for it.
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I can't see myself spending the rest of my life as a judge.
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I think modelling was like the university of life, really. You get to travel but you get thrown into this adult world, which is kind of quite scary.
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When I was fifteen, I became a professional musician. I got involved with people and did certain things which led me to start making records and touring. And leaving Belfast and going to London and America, one thing led to another and I got caught up in the life that I'm living now...I was very young and i followed something. (1993)
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For me, nature is something you watch on the Discovery Channel, or on the evening news -- as you learn how much more of it's been savaged to make way for the Blackberry realm that is my home
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Chasing the sensation. Whether it was drugs or sex or whatever. Those things had become my main focus in life.
