Ritchie Blackmore Quotes
I don't put myself on Jeff Beck's level, but I can relate to him when he says he'd rather be working on his car collection than playing the guitar.
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Everybody thinks they deserve something.
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When I travel, I just take what I need and I run. I always have my briefcase stuffed with work, even when I go on a holiday.
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I try to be as ignorant about things as I can.
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You've got the federal government in every part of our lives, doing things wrong.
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Today in the era of globalization there is no such issue as borders between states of the same nation.
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When I first started making music, I was all about wordplay and how fast I could rap, but over the years, I've really gained an appreciation for melody. What's cool is that when you're singing, you have to be concise, and when you're rapping, you have the opportunity to be really detailed with your lyrics.
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People don't have a good intuitive sense of how to weigh new information in light of what they already know. They tend to overrate it.
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My own military background is wholly un-distinguished. I was a sergeant.
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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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I'm looking forward to the day when America will mature to the point that we are a color-blind society. I'm not so sure that in politics that will ever be reality, because politics has a way of separating us based on skin color.
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When I was little, I grew up in a place called Hertfordshire, which is just near London, but out in the country, and I visited Pakistan in the summers to go and see my family on my dad's side.
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Music is not just a part of my everday life, I'm surrounded by it every minute.
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My son will be an American, but I remain French.
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The writing part of my life never changes, because that's just when the inspiration comes.
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Israel is slightly smaller than New Jersey. Moses in effect led the tribes of Israel out of the District of Columbia, parted Chesapeake Bay near Annapolis, and wandered for forty years in Delaware.
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There are a few elements - especially platinum and palladium - that have the amazing ability to absorb up to 900 times their own volume in hydrogen gas. To get a sense of the scale there, that's roughly equivalent to a 250-pound man swallowing something the size of a dozen African bull elephants and not gaining an inch on his waistline.
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I don't try and write strong female characters or strong male characters, I just try and write, hopefully, strong characters and sometimes they happen to be female.
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A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.
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When you're writing for a show, you're writing part of the script. You have to tell the story.
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When I'm in the car, I want the only one shouting to be me.
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One of the first things a British visitor to Southern California discovers is that he must have a car. Freeways. Bad public transport. I took driving lessons.
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It was not until I started racing for car manufacturers that I found a car I could really get attached to. I am the son of a car dealer, so up until then, cars just came and went.
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The federal government has a responsibility to address climate change. The federal government can continue to regulate corporations, tax polluters and incentivize the use of renewable forms of energy.
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I don't put myself on Jeff Beck's level, but I can relate to him when he says he'd rather be working on his car collection than playing the guitar.
