Rick Derringer Quotes
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My mum is black, my dad is white, and when I was a teenager, people would say, 'So what are you? Are you black? Or white? What are you more of?'
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I don't wanna be preached to. Unless it's in a beautiful voice, I don't want that.
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I always wanted to be a leading man!
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Yes, Socialists should defend their country in great historical crises.
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I don't find biology as interesting as politics and humanism. I talk more about existential stuff.
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We think touch is short-term. The mouse and keyboard were stable for 25 years, but I think touch will be stable for 10 years. Post-touch will be stable for a really long time, longer than 25 years.
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Like most people, I shrink from exposing my innermost secrets and my most private and intimate actions.
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The bells will ring and the marriages will begin. And it's a great day in our state for equal protection under the law for all people.
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When I left Van Halen, I went in the studio and made a CD called Marching to Mars with all studio musicians. I did it immediately. With the disappointment riding on my shoulders of the breakup of the band.
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I like boring golf. That's kind of what butters my bread.
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Remember, social progress only happens when those in society's privileged classes choose to give up their status.
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Being right is important. Too many great teams march off saying, 'If we build it, they will come,' and then never are able to change the idea towards something that people really want.
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Don't get disillusioned, no don't expect too much Cause if what you have is all you can get Just keep on trying It just ain't happened yet.
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Having worked in the planning field for over 18 years, I think I would be an asset during the upcoming master plan update.
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Watch the things you say you can't believe, and then recall the things you accept without thinking, like your own existence.
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I thought I was writing for a fairly hip, intelligent crowd; I just thought there were more of them out there. But they're not. They're not out there waiting. They're not gonna use their intelligence on your book.
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You refused to fall in love with anyone else, Dmitri.” A whisper with the impact of a gun-shot. “So I had to come back for you . . . husband.
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In the West, it is the opposite, like you are using these practices [meditation and yoga ] to further your ego by being more productive, being more this, and getting more out of your work and earning more money. In the East, the whole idea is that you are dissolving your essence through these practices.
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If I played in New York, they'd name a candy bar after me.
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By the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded.
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When I look back on the past two decades of my journey today, I guess many people would interpret my artistic practice as a kind of cross-media attempt. I have indeed tried many different kinds of media over the past 20 years and collaborated in many different ways with people from many different fields. However, I like to understand this process as a kind of compensation for having once lost my "right of choice," an exercise of free choice and taking responsibility for any consequences that might result from it. To be honest, it's a bit of a paranoid act.
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I wanted to play some more grown-up music - jazz.
