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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Let me clarify it through the national news agency that I am not joining Aam Aadmi Party. There has been reports that I will be officially joining AAP, but I can assure you that nothing of that sort is happening.
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Thomas Friedman's 'The World is Flat' sold more copies in India than in the U.K. The market for go-getting business books or wonkish tomes by corporate moguls posing as philosopher kings has grown dramatically in modernising China and India.
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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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My happiest moments of growing up in the Bronx were when my mom would bring home a new sports magazine from the candy store. I would jump out of bed and grab it from her. Then I'd rip the front cover right off and tape it to my bedroom wall.
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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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I loved Jack Ford. I got him in his later days, and he was a total tyrant and a total autocrat and an Irish drunk. But I had a great time.
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I'm not a drunk anymore, but since they cut out my tongue, I sound drunk.
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I will play on this blessed earth until I die.
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Often it seems that there are writers who are their best selves on the page. That Seamus Heaney was as genuine and deeply admirable in person as in his poems was to me a gift, then as now.
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Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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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."
