John Baizley (John Dyer Baizley) Quotes
I tend to over extend myself without really thinking throughthe realities of completing so many projects in a year, which generally means I'm going to be a little bit behind. I suppose that's the nature of the beast.
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When you like something and you're pretty good at it and you can make a living doing it, you don't ask why. You just count your blessings and go with it.
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Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.
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What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre.
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It's insane to me to ask anybody to be what they're not. Know what you know the best, love the most. That's always going to be the answer to the thing that you have the best shot at winning at.
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Whenever I hear that I'm on the brink of stardom, I feel like I want to run into a cave.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?
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I enjoy making films, but my heart is in the stage. Every night you have to be on. There's no second take.
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My approach is to be part of a band that makes music, not hit songs.
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I've got two small kids. I want to make sure they grow up to be good people. Do they treat people well? Are they kind?
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My deceased grandmother on my mom's side was a real fairy godmother, who lived to be 102 and who I always feel is looking after me.
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Going to Europe as a budding cook opened my eyes to food in a different way. When I got to Italy, the first thing I did was put my little basil plants in the ground and watch them turn into big, healthy bushes.
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Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.
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A lot of people meet me and they're like, 'Why aren't you crazy?'
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I don't carry the burden of the past or the madness of the future. I live in the present.
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He that offereth sacrifice of the goods of the poor is as one that sacrificeth the son in the presence of his father.
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I like David Lynch; I like Stanley Kubrick. I'm a big fan of Kubrick.
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I have to have coffee in the morning.
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I tend to navigate by indirection, meaning that most of the major things in my life have happened when I've been thinking about something else.
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You can't live your life being upset about things, but it's a lot easier to not be upset about it if you've got enough money yourself. If you're walking around broke and working a job from nine to five or seven to five, and you're really struggling to make ends meet, you start thinking about people who have ripped you off and getting pretty angry at them.
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Some ways of using our thinking are really inspiring. There are people who use their thinking to race cars. People use their thinking to build rockets to the moon. It’s all just a use of your thinking.
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You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun.
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How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?
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I tend to over extend myself without really thinking throughthe realities of completing so many projects in a year, which generally means I'm going to be a little bit behind. I suppose that's the nature of the beast.
