Rick Allen Quotes
Some are more nuts than others. I've had my moments. But I don't think I'm really a typical drummer. I've met some that I couldn't keep up with.
Quotes to Explore
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I think mobility is very important, not only to discover opportunities elsewhere but at times, also to appreciate better what your home town has. Allahabad, for instance, has the feel of a small, tightly-knit community where everyone participates.
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Now that mobile phones and the internet have altered the epistemic selective landscape in a revolutionary way, every religious organisation must scramble to evolve defences or become extinct.
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I'm excited that I get to do what I love, and I'm benefiting through projects that speak to me.
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When your focus is social change and not financial change, why wouldn't you want to share that openly? Innovation only succeeds when it's shared.
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You cannot perform in a manner inconsistent with the way you see yourself.
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I've been very selective in what I did and didn't do.
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I love playing characters who are multilayered and multidimensional and have a darkness to them, which makes them more realistic and more fun to play.
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Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals.
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People always like people, you know?
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I try to take each moment at a time.
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NASA has to approve whatever we wear, so there are clothes to choose from, like space shorts - we wear those a lot - and NASA T-shirts.
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After having seen the job done on that first show of mine, I realized that I felt like I wanted to work again for a short while. Two, three years, then stop.
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From a distance he had the bland aspect of a philanthropist.
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I'm a Jewish Jane Austen.
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My children haven't even seen most of my movies.
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A tea set is good for a newborn girl. It is a gift that instantly makes the room a girl's room.
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My favourite day is like when it's raining, and I can just lie on the couch.
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The horrific damage of 9/11 did not end when those buildings came down.
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I'm not going to change; I'm very stubborn in this way. I am what I am.
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Sometimes things seem so unbearable in the middle of the night, don't they? In the middle of the night, we're all such children.
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Whether it's performing a concert with my quartet or sitting in with my peers, enjoying musical conversations at home with my brothers or hanging and playing choro with my friends - sharing moments in that bright space of music are the happiest times.
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Remind thyself, in the darkest moments, that every failure is only a step toward success, every detection of what is false directs you toward what is true, every trial exhausts some tempting form of error, and every adversity will only hide, for a time, your path to peace and fulfillment.
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I learned quickly enough when to click the shutter, but what I was becoming aware of more slowly was a story-writer's truth: The thing to wait on, to reach for, is the moment in which people reveal themselves... I learned from my own pictures, one by one, and had to; for I think we are the breakers of our own hearts.
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Some are more nuts than others. I've had my moments. But I don't think I'm really a typical drummer. I've met some that I couldn't keep up with.
