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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I am an emotional and fragile person. I observe life, I am perceptive and can read a person's body language. I have a strong journalistic streak in me, and had I not been a filmmaker, I would have become a film journalist. I have combined my perceptive and journalistic traits to create my own brand of cinema.
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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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'Six Feet Under' was so much about life. Sure, it had a lot to do with death, but that's the fun - that now I became a dead person.
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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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You have a whole life in the outdoors, you realize you have a sense of responsibility to protect these wild places.
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And people talk about the stimulus package and the jobs that it was supposed to create, it certainly didn't have the intended effects that everybody was hoping for or that the president and administration certainly was hoping for. So I think it's time to lay some new solutions on the table, some new ideas.
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Obviously, you would give your life for your children, or give them the last biscuit on the plate. But to me, the trick in life is to take that sense of generosity between kin, make it apply to the extended family and to your neighbour, your village and beyond.
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I got to thinking that poems were like people. Some people you got right off the bat. Some people you just didn't get--and never would get.
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Chasing the sensation. Whether it was drugs or sex or whatever. Those things had become my main focus in life.
