Robert Trujillo Quotes
I just wanted to experiment with the bass, and my main influence from Jaco Pastorius inspired me to write music in a certain way.
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I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school.
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In 1949 - my father stayed on in Shanghai after the war. But in 1949, the Communists took over the whole of China, and in fact, my father was caught by the Communists in Shanghai. And he was there for about a year until he was finally able to get out.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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There are periods in history when change is necessary, and other periods when it is better to keep everything for the time as it is. The art of life is to be in the rhythm of your age.
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Purgatory fire will be more intolerable than all the torments that can be felt or conceived in this life.
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We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.
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I was raised in New York City and raised in the New York City theater world. My father was a theater director and an acting teacher, and it was not uncommon for me to have long discussions about the method and what the various different processes were to finding a character and exploring character and realizing that character.
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A true heiress is never mean to anyone - except a girl who steals your boyfriend.
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A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.
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When you live in L.A., it is easy to stay fit, as the weather is amazing.
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One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it.
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I've been grateful that 'Time's' reach and mandate is so broad; anything you're interested in, you can usually write about.
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In Europe, the big word is tolerance. You tolerate everything.
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For me to be as effective as possible, I intend to sharpen those skills I need to successfully lead an organization that is growing in size and complexity with each passing year.
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I don't like being in debt, and I wouldn't borrow money for anything.
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In 2010, the Spanish constitutional court annulled a large part of the Catalan statute of autonomy negotiated between Catalonia and the previous prime minister, Jose Luis Zapatero. This demolished one of the main agreements achieved during the Spanish transition to democracy - Catalonia's recovery of self-governance.
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'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' is not a direct-to-video, low-budget sequel: it's a big film. And it'd be fantastic to have the opportunity to see it on the IMAX screens at the same time, and IMAX has made arrangements with us for that to happen.
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Both my wife and I have a lot of compassion for animals in general.
Biz Stone
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I realized late in life that my twin passions are music and people.
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It's more difficult to write a song about having your heart ripped out of your chest while you're in love. Because it lacks honesty. And the honesty comes through in the music, it really does.
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I always have problems with seeing how our new stuff relates to our old stuff - I'm better at seeing long lines in other people's music than in my own.
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Everything good and bad about technology would be magnified by implanting it deep in brains. Is the risk of brain-hacking outweighed by the societal benefits of faster, deeper communication, and the ability to augment our own intelligence?
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I just wanted to experiment with the bass, and my main influence from Jaco Pastorius inspired me to write music in a certain way.
