Rick Derringer Quotes
For me, I go in and play a few Christian songs for an audience, and now I have people come up and not tell me I'm great, but tell me that my music is helping save their lives, helping them in the Lord, and helping them end their vices.
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I feel that there has been progress made since I was a boy on matters of race, but we have a long way to go.
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My favorite thing to do is to wind those guys up by hitting on their girlfriends. I say, 'I think your girlfriend's gorgeous, but it's all right, I'm gay.' They get very nervous after a few minutes!
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Hors D'oeuvre: A ham sandwich cut into forty pieces.
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I knew on the day that I accepted my job at CNN that a ratings victory at 8 P.M. was going to be a formidable challenge. As I have been told over and over, this is the toughest time slot in cable news.
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Know your priorities and identify the five powerful action steps that you intend to take to move your initiatives forward each day. If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually, the tree has to fall down.
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When I did 'Hot Fuzz,' I tried to get Barbara Steele in the movie, but I was told she had retired.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.
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It's easy not to bribe. But it's not so easy to keep a business running at the same time.
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I've fallen in love in my life a few times. It's the most exciting part of being alive - that I've experienced, anyway.
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By itself, tofu is like wet foam rubber, but you'd no more eat it by itself and expect fine dining than you would stare at a blank canvas and expect to see fine art.
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That's a real problem when people bring exotics into their homes. Sometimes it's by accident, but sometimes it's on purpose.
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If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts.
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The minute that you're not learning I believe you're dead.
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This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.
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Catchphrases flourish in contemporary American English.
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In general, I hate films that are overtly either very masculine or very feminine, you know? The same way that I don't like a war movie about soldiers smashing people's heads. But a chick flick I like would be Cassavetes' movies. 'A Woman Under the Influence,' 'Husbands.'
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Hey, once a Bond girl, always a Bond girl. It will always be a big deal - it's an exclusive club.
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I think that, as artists, all we can do is be who we are. I think that if we do that, then we're automatically not anyone else.
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Ah! Those strange people who have the courage to be unhappy! Are they unhappy, by the way?
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When you get older, you have to stay a bit rock n' roll so that young people will still be interested in you. The way you move, the way you talk, maybe the way you have your hair in your face a little bit - this keeps you interesting.
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The important thing about mobile is, everybody has a computer in their pocket. The implications of so many people connected to the Internet all the time from the standpoint of education is incredible.
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I've never had a problem with people paying attention to what you're doing and say they find that they liked it.
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For me, I go in and play a few Christian songs for an audience, and now I have people come up and not tell me I'm great, but tell me that my music is helping save their lives, helping them in the Lord, and helping them end their vices.
