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.
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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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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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People who take risks like Amy Winehouse and Norah Jones take a second to catch on, but eventually they do because they're different and honest in a musical landscape that's not always like that.
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I'd love for people to accept me just as me, but I know that I generate a strong response; I always have - my name, my looks, my size.
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I love what I do, but I never want to OD on celebrity.
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When something is at risk or in danger or about to be lost, those are the moments you start to realize how much it means to you.
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I like to go to church. Religion is an important part in my life. It has helped me in bad moments.
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Others of us are lost. We're forever seeking. We torture ourselves with philosophies and ache to see the world. We question everything, even our own existence. We ask a lifetime of questions and are never satisfied with the answers because we don't recognize anyone as an authority to give them. We see life and the world as an enormous puzzle that we might never understand, that our questions might go unanswered until the day we die, almost never occurs to us. And when it does, it fills us with dread.
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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.
