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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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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All your thoughts are in another head. Your dreams are sleepin' in a different bed. The force that moves you is a circular breath of life and death going round and round and round.
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In capitalist society spare time is acquired for one class by converting the whole life-time of the masses into labour-time.
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My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician. To tell the truth, there's hardly a difference.
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You can cooperate and not compromise your core values. But I'm a realist with the philosophy that sometimes you've got to take bites out of the apple instead of the whole apple.
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I think we have challenges, but we have so many opportunities to get it right. I like it when we have a little bit of a headwind. The kite actually lifts when you have a headwind and doesn't when there is lift from the back.
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Yes, the fullness of the gospel is a pearl of great price worth any effort.
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Besides being responsible for myself, I'm now responsible for someone else. And I have to set the right examples. I have to really be someone that I would want my child to look up to.
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Chasing the sensation. Whether it was drugs or sex or whatever. Those things had become my main focus in life.
