Rick Allen Quotes
Just the same way I'd say a prayer before going onstage, taking that even further and using the drum to inspire people. And using that as a vehicle for the intention.
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If we overregulate, over control, impose too many burdens and too much bureaucracy - or if we do it across the board, without taking into account the differences among businesses and their relative impact on society - that could make people risk-averse and dampen the entrepreneurial spirit.
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You mustn't upstage the bride.
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I feel like the one insight that's extremely comforting to me about the world is that we all share the same pool of emotion that we draw from.
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There are grave misgivings that the discussion on ecology may be designed to distract attention from the problems of war and poverty.
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You have to love your body, respect it, and treat it well.
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The years keep going by and you realize, Wow. Doing these records is such a process: going on tour for a year and a half, then you get home and you want to do other things.
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I'm not a journalist. I have not gone to school for this.
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It is our hope that the AP program can serve as an anchor for increasing rigor in our schools. Rigor can be maintained while increasing student participation.
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This is the sense of the desert hills, that there is room enough and time enough.
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There is no such thing as a guilty pleasure.
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I love listening to classical music.
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There's no point in living in an alternate reality.
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'Taxi Driver' was one of the happiest moments of my career.
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TV critics, who traditionally hate television and make their living writing about it, often didn't like what I did on the air.
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I'm a Mac user. I think it depends on how you were brought up, and I was introduced to Apple quite early. They're certainly the best for visual stuff and film-directing.
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The Google Voice service is a lifesaver for me. My actual phone number changes a lot, so having a canonical Google Voice number that doesn't change - it's actually my same number from high school - is indispensable.
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It is quite annoying that we have to change the sound we invented just to avoid sounding like people who simply copy us, but... it is flattering and of course challenging.
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Self pity is of the devil, and if I wallow in it, I cannot be used by God for his purpose in the world.
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Well, I would say that music just happens with me, I'm not in the driver's seat when I am at the piano, the piano is.
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I went into the Verizon store the other day, and the salesman was pretty excited. He was like, 'Hey Dierks, what can I show you?' I said, 'The cheapest, lowest tech phone you have.' I think he was disappointed. Everybody else was running out for the new iPhone 6, but I got a flip phone.
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I was nineteen and I put a bowl on and I said, Cut around! Because it was not the fashion at the time when I did that hairdo - and I kept it all my life!
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I write exactly as I speak, so therefore I would not say any writer influenced me at all.
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Just the same way I'd say a prayer before going onstage, taking that even further and using the drum to inspire people. And using that as a vehicle for the intention.
