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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There's an album by Antonio Carlos Jobim - the album with 'The Girl From Ipanema.' That's the most seductive music ever.
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My grandparents don't really listen to pop music, and they only speak Spanish and only listen to Spanish music.
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It's been one of the most painful things I've ever been through in my whole life: trying to understand the degree to which behaviors that I thought were totally appropriate were destructive.
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I do think that people have moments of realisation in real life - even if it's on their death beds - when they suddenly think, 'Jesus - what did I do?'
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Sexiness is a state of mind - a comfortable state of being. It's about loving yourself in your most unlovable moments.
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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.
