Ritchie Blackmore Quotes
I however don't go to clubs to show off and to be seen, and certainly not to make statements. I just want to be able to quietly watch a band.
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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.
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My memory of my home was that it was very happy, and that there was more fun and life there than there was anywhere else.
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I grew up such a horror fan, it's kinda cool being named 'Scream Queen.' I like that.
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In America, music is more tightly categorized.
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One of the issues I kept saying to my students is you have to learn to interrupt. When you raise your hand at a meeting, by the time they get to you, the point is not germane. So the bottom line is active listening. If you are going to interrupt, you look for opportunities. You have to know what you're talking about.
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I'm looking for people who are at the cutting edge of what they do, who think out-of-the-box. Even if their work is something common today, it might have been absolutely new when they started out, so we'd like to hear of their beginnings.
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Here in America we're doing the most wonderful crafts.
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When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back.
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Kids accept where they are because they don't know the past. They know what they have; they know where they are.
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I was interested in virtual reality for several years even before working at USC, it wasn't an interest that started there at all. In fact, when I started working at USC, I already had prototypes of the Rift that were very similar to the final design.
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I've been telling my students, 'Imitate, imitate.' And they say, 'Well, what if I plagiarize, or what if I'm not original? I want to be myself.' And I always tell them, 'Your self will shine through'... If you allow yourself to feel deeply and honestly, what you say won't be like anyone else.
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War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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I am only interested in bad taste if I can enjoy a gruesome tango or watch a movie that makes me cry.
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As a musician, life is not over just because you are getting older, and so I find retirement a very frightening and dark thought.
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My definition of country music is really pretty simple. It's when someone sings about their life and what they know, from an authentic place.
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Everyone deals with loss. I'm no different, but we all find our ways of coming through things. Is it tough? Of course, but you find the strength to push on through.
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It's a character-builder to be a fan of the Chicago Cubs.
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I always had the dream of flying, and the cheapest way is to become a skydiver.
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The author Goya is convinced that it is as proper for painting to criticize human error and vice as for poetry and prose to do so, although criticism is usually taken to be exclusively the business of literature.
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When I was 15, I worked as a bag boy in a grocery store. I also needed to walk old ladies to their car and put their bags in the car, and they would give me two dollars. I felt like the richest man in the world.
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Puerto Rico is a powerful island.
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Lightnin Hopkins was something of a fixture on the Houston coffee house scene so we were witness to eccentric blues brilliance close up. Then, believe it or not, along came the wave of the English cats like John Mayall, Eric Clapton and the Stones embracing the great American art form - the blues.
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It's funny how most people love the dead, once you're dead your made for life.
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I however don't go to clubs to show off and to be seen, and certainly not to make statements. I just want to be able to quietly watch a band.
