Rick Derringer Quotes
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I like the diversity that my children are exposed to every day.
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I had a restaurant in Georgia for a while, and I really miss feeding everybody.
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I have a fascination with Flight 93. My emotions are mixed: awe, gratitude, fear, heartache, pride - even, in some ways, guilt.
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Making the record was tons of fun, the most fun I've ever had.
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A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel, any day.
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Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
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I know it sounds a bit corny, but I do think that beauty and sexiness come from within.
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The sound of a golf game is very different than the sound of a football game.
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I never liked my father. He really was a dullard and misanthrope. My mother and he were married for 22, years and it was an ill match. She encouraged me to be a writer. She opened her home to black friends, and this was the 1950s. She didn't care later when I write about her.
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There's something about the darkness that I find unavoidably intoxicating. The knowledge that other people are sleeping and, therefore, unavailable to ruin my solitude, makes me more peaceful than I am during the day.
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I take my work enormously seriously. When I do something, it has to feel right. Everything has to be right.
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I really feel sorry for new generation. It's hard to find backbone. I never had crisis of identity. But I think many Americans have it.
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We can continue down our current path, in which the gears of this great democracy grind to a halt and our children accept a life of lower expectations; where politics is a zero-sum game where a few do very well while struggling families of every race fight over a shrinking economic pie - that’s one path. Or we can have the courage to change.
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Give metal a chance!
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I really didn't want to enter the UFC in a fight that nobody really cared about or where people thought I was just going to whoop some guy.
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A lot of people didn't realize that I acted before I did anything else.
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I always loved writing, but never considered that I could do it professionally.
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I think it's difficult to forget things that are unresolved.
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Basically, when you get to my age, you'll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.
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For most of the people who have a lot of success, it's because they were the ones who didn't quit. It's not necessarily because it was just laid out for them. It won't apply to all cases, but I think it's pretty good advice.
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Profit is the most global aspect of a business, and it is cross-functional.
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I can't judge Justin Bieber, because I don't know him.
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I was almost kind of trapped by my own success into only doing rock.
