Duff McKagan Quotes
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I feel like I grew up in the circus. I know planes, trains and automobiles. And really talented, weird people.
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Whatever you have a passion for, then you must do. If you want to write, write about something you know about.
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You can't try and make something you think someone else will like. You can only make what you like. How can you make a song that Yo-Landi Visser likes? You don't know me. You'll never understand me.
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You know once you get in the business you know what you're getting into.
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Life histories tell you just about everything you need to know about an animal.
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In the streets, they're very nice. On Twitter, there are people who love to hate me. Sometimes people get mean. I tend to answer like, 'Careful now, know who you're dealing with...' They're like, 'I'm sorry! Don't send the Lord of Light after me!' It's fun to play with that.
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I don't talk about success. I don't know what it is. Wait until I'm dead.
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I grew up taking care of the pigs. I love this country that, you know, somebody can do something like that.
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No one has a corner on success. It is his who pays the price.
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I loved working with kids, and kids are the most incredibly discerning audience. And if they don't believe you, they will tell you and let you know. I mean, kids is where it's at, really.
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Oh, you know, I think it was definitely a little pressure, to remake something like 'Fame'.
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I have often wondered what it is an old building can do to you when you happen to know a little about things that went on long ago in that building.
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What's an expert? I read somewhere, that the more a man knows, the more he knows, he doesn't know. So I suppose one definition of an expert would be someone who doesn't admit out loud that he knows enough about a subject to know he doesn't really know how much.
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I never considered myself a fall guy. I know what I did. I know why I did it. I'm not ashamed of it.
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I think I'm a nervous laugher. Like, when you're in a situation that you don't know what's going on, you go to laughter more than anything.
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We are all like Scheherazade's husband, in that we want to know what happens next.
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People want to know where I'm going, and I just don't ever know.
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Yeah, you know, I'm always into cassette. At least they seem to be the longest-lasting medium we used to have. I don't play cassettes much anymore, but I play records all the time.
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It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, 'I don't know.'
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We live in a time when writers do not always have barriers around them.
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What is Oracle? It's people. We rely on our HR department to build this organization, to help find those people, to help grow those people.
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We hold that the greatest right in the world is the right to be wrong, that in the exercise thereof people have an inviolable right to express their unbridled thoughts on all topics and personalities, being liable only for the abuse of that right.
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It is no easy thing for a principle to become a man's own unless each day he maintains it and works it out in his life.
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You never know what's around the corner.