Dusty Hill Quotes
"I promise you, if we did 'Fly Me To The Moon' it would still sound like ZZ Top. It's just the way we play."
Quotes to Explore
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San Franciscans know we live in the most beautiful city in the world, a jewel on the edge of the Golden Gate.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.
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As an astronaut, you have a very defined set of tasks to do. Those tasks may require you to work 60, 70 or 80 hours a week.
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At the beginning, I experienced writing as a sort of constraint. Starting so young as a writer is pitiable: it's beyond your powers; you have to lay bare things that are very heavy, and you don't have the means for that.
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I love the word 'dearth,' by the way. It's one of my favorite words.
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It has been a motto of mine my whole life - just be yourself.
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An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.
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A well-designed 401(k) plan is an enormous competitive edge when recruiting and retaining employees.
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In Europe, the big word is tolerance. You tolerate everything.
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I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition.
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I have quite a foul mouth.
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For me the purest and truest art in the world is science fiction.
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I am sensible of the velocity of the moments, and entering that part of my head alert to the motion of the world I am aware that life was never perfect, never absolute. This bestows contentment, even a fearlessness.
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He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.
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Americanism demands loyalty to the teacher and respect for his lesson.
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I have plenty of investments that I wish I'd never made. But the model is to lose money on a lot of investments and then make 1,000X or 10,000X on an investment.
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I see a lot of scripts, and very few of them leap off the page at you.
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poets are privileged to utter more than they can always quite explain, bringing up from the mind's unplumbed depths tokens of the nature of the world we carry within us.
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“The life of a human being, let alone his personal freedom, is a matter of no importance. But the love of freedom is native to every human being and every nation, and cannot be suppressed in the long term. History teaches us that tyranny has never endured. And now we have blood-guilt on our conscience for the dreadful injustice of murdering the Jewish inhabitants.”
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Having the opportunity to play a strong woman is a good one.
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Kenny Burrell that's the sound I'm looking for.
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It reinforces a sense of safety, even of pleasure, to know that murder is possible, just not here. At the start of the nineteenth century, it was easy to think of murder that way.
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"I promise you, if we did 'Fly Me To The Moon' it would still sound like ZZ Top. It's just the way we play."
