Sammy Hagar (Samuel Roy Hagar) Quotes
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It is hard to watch myself. I'm hypercritical, and it's difficult to watch a performance when I may end up being at odds with it - wishing I'd done something differently or that they had edited it a certain way.
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A bowler is his own captain. I know what needs to be done, what the ball is doing. If you don't know where you are going to bowl and where you think the batsman will hit, then how can you tell the captain what you want? You are the judge.
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I love boxing. I box in a local boxing gym in London. I usually spar. But I've done two fights and I lost both of them admirably. I didn't realize how much it would hurt for them to actually hit me.
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I love writing journalism because it's all over in two hours and comes straight off the top of the head. Writing novels is soooooo much harder. It's the hardest thing I've ever done.
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I've never had to explain 'Prometheus' to people, ever. Most people get it.
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David Bowie was awesome the easiest, coolest interview I have ever done.
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I want to do everything in the world that can be done.
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I've been in the public eye now for about 15 or 16 years, and I'm very aware that fame is not a given. I have to maintain it. It's not just something that will always be there. But I've always been a worker. I've never expected be given anything.
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I was raised Catholic, but the devil was never with a pitchfork.
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Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.
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Until I was diagnosed with mouth cancer, I'd never heard of it.
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He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.
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The juices never stop flowing. I still write songs.
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It never occurred to me that we would have as grandiose a program as the Marshall Plan, but I felt that we had to do something to save Europe from economic disaster which would encourage the Communist takeover.
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When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before.
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Never have anyone else carry your luggage. Pack only what you need.
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You never know how much time you got.
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I never had any social life, just played the piano and studied, studied, studied.
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So Pa sold the little house. He sold the cow and calf. He made hickory bows and fastened them upright to the wagon box. Ma helped him stretch white canvas over them.
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People don't want to do new things if they think they're going to be bad at them or people are going to laugh at them. You have to be willing to subject yourself to failure, to be bad, to fall on your head and do it again, and try stuff that you've never done in order to be the best you can be.
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I'm very physical. I grew up boxing. I've done almost all of my own stunts in movies and in television.
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As I look back on the last few decades of my life, I am struck by the good fortune that came my way.
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Successful fiction does not need to be validated by 'real life'; I cringe whenever a writer is asked how much of a novel is 'real'.
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I've never done a box set, and Eddie's full of it if he says otherwise.
