Robert Trujillo Quotes
I knew Rocky George, the guitar player, 'cause I went to junior high school with him, so I've known him for many years.
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I was taught to play that way when I was in high school and even before I got to high school.
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Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
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One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.
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'I can't get no satisfaction,' in political terms, has haunted Hungarian politics for 20 years.
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Diving has been in the game for years. Probably the coverage the game gets now, with all the cameras around, it gets highlighted a bit more. But it hasn't got any worse.
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I was in high school when Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru unfurled India's flag in New Delhi.
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It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.
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I started submitting stories for publication when I was about 15, but it was many years before I sold anything. I don't make my living writing science fiction, so in that sense, I'm still not a pro.
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I did successfully kick tobacco at the age of 34. I smoked for like 20 years, from 14 to 34.
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I think I've become more modest as the years have gone on.
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I went with Lionel Hampton for three years. Out of that came a trip to Europe.
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After 20 years, a million written words, and nine rejected novels, I finally landed a book contract.
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I wrote my first song when I was six or seven, a silly little song. But I used to write poems in high school - not songs.
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Shockingly, the Bidens donated under $1,000 to all charities combined every year for the ten years prior to 2008.
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Many years ago, I really didn't know where the next work was coming from.
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Are you a Democrat because you're a union member? Then why, after eight years of Bill Clinton, does some Chinese guy in Guangdong province have your job?
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I would rather do twenty TV series than go through what I went through under that Rank contract I signed a few years ago for which I blame no one but myself.
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When I was five years old, I auditioned for the role of 'Tiny Tim in A Christmas Carol.'
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Whatever's going on with me at the time of writing is going to find its way into the piece. If that doesn't happen, then what the hell am I doing? So if I'm writing 'Inglourious Basterds,' and I'm in love with a girl and we break up, that's going to find its way into the piece.
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The original is more musical than the club mix. I always enjoy using melodies and find it crucial for albums to have variety in styles.
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We must quit bending the Word to suit our situation. It is we who must be bent to that Word, our necks that must bow under the yoke.
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Sure, I could have lots of people who do the cooking, the driving, all that jazz - but I would be unhappy. I wouldn't want my children raised that way.
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Can you dissolve your ego? Can you abandon the idea of self and other? Can you relinquish the notions of male and female, short and long, life and death? Can you let go of all these dualities and embrace the Tao without skepticism or panic? If so, you can reach the heart of the Integral Oneness.
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I knew Rocky George, the guitar player, 'cause I went to junior high school with him, so I've known him for many years.
