Steve Lukather Quotes
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I don't have to really be in the 60s. Every time I hail a cab in New York, and they pass me by and pick up the white person, then I get a dose of it. Or when they don't want to take you to Harlem. I grew up with that.
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It's really bizarre because no one knows this, but elephants have killed more animal trainers than any other animal.
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Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It's like, 'Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a reader.'
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Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them.
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My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one.
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I'm very realistic. I know my boundaries - I know what I'm good at and what I'm not good at.
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My grandfather worked in a shoe factory - he was an Italian immigrant. My father was the first to go to college in the family.
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I am getting to the point where the only love worth being in is the love worth singing about.
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No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
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Where you don't have people who have strong intellectual capacity, you get demagoguery.
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I'm very lucky in the sense that I've got a voice that's distinctive. Not good, but distinctive. That's a very useful thing to have in this business. I'm glad on the one hand that I've got it, but I wish it was more powerful. I wish I had a greater range. I wish it was more accurate at times.
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A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.
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Not a day has gone by in my life when I haven't thought about death.
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I had a lot of anger because I wasn't happy with the way I had been raised.
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Petal, like a persistent song phrase, like a few stubborn lines of verse memorized in childhood. The needle was stuck.
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I'm not gay, and I'm not a transvestite.
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I vote in every general election, but I'm not a party member or an ideologue. I've never told anyone who I've voted for.
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It is not enough just to identify a problem; there are plenty of people who were very skilled at pointing out what was wrong with the world, but they were not always so adept at working out how these things could be righted.
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Definitely it was quite fun. When it?s like that, the bike?s working, the bike has got grip, and the lap comes together, it?s a lot of fun to ride the bike like that. Really enjoyed it.
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There is one thing no people have ever done; that is, to oppose a threatening war with intelligent and vigorous purpose some years before it was due to arrive.
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I am so used to being up on stage and talking to my fans that it's strange to be on stage and be someone else. I can't look at the audience during 'In the Heights' or I will start talking to them.
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There was a time when the average reader read a novel simply for the moral he could get out of it, and however na?ve that may have been, it was a good deal less na?ve than some of the limited objectives he has now. Today novels are considered to be entirely concerned with the social or economic or psychological forces that they will by necessity exhibit, or with those details of daily life that are for the good novelist only means to some deeper end.
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When people make fun of us, it's fine. I get it.
