Lars Ulrich Quotes
What Metallica always tries to do, as we go around and play a lot of the same cities, over and over again, year after year, is to give a different experience. We try to never play the same venues, or if we play indoors, we'll play outdoors, and all that type of stuff. It's always about just trying to do a different kind of experience.
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I sort of write onstage. I'll throw an idea out there, like Home Depot, and just start talking about it.
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I stayed in the astronaut program until 1993. People ask me why I left. I thought I had a lot of things to contribute that would be difficult to do if I stayed. I thought I could have a stronger voice as an advocate for space exploration. So I ended up starting my own technology consulting company.
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I now believe that major labels can only work with people who care more about fame and money than the quality of the art they produce.
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When we read fiction, we want to get outside of ourselves and are able to see from a perspective we haven't seen through before. That can be very powerful.
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(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.
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I'm the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then there's a few more albums in us.
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I've found that the most engaging and satisfying author events I've done are with other people, where the conversation is spontaneous. I think that is by far the better way to introduce and promote a book.
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My hat's off to Shonda Rhimes.
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You need to make a trip to Des Moines in August, because the Iowa State Fair really is a sight to see. The Iowa Fairgrounds are usually packed for those 11 days, and you get a real sense of what a classic Midwest fair is all about.
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My hair and my accent are sort of my main assets.
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To have success in your professional life is not so hard. To succeed as a man is more difficult.
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If wanted to play a sport, I played a sport. If I wanted to do things that many girls born in 1950 didn't do, I did it.
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I don't even like to talk Lions too much just because the way our relationship ended.
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In order for me to be successful... In order to be a great artist - musician, actor, painter, whatever - you must be able to be private in public at all times. That is what we do.
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I'm going to fight to the death for a public option.
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Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.
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That is the effect of my sculptures in the public domain: people are making contact with each other again.
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My wife watches me like a hawk.
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I have to entertain, because if I don't entertain you, you're not going to continue reading. But if I'm not out to enlighten, or change your mind about something, or change your behavior, then I really don't want to take the journey.
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How many movies do you see when you can say this director really knew what film he wanted to make? I can count them on the fingers of one hand.
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The first job of a writer is to be honest.
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The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation.
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It’s not right to put water before people and then keep them away from it.
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What Metallica always tries to do, as we go around and play a lot of the same cities, over and over again, year after year, is to give a different experience. We try to never play the same venues, or if we play indoors, we'll play outdoors, and all that type of stuff. It's always about just trying to do a different kind of experience.
