John Densmore Quotes
Anything that Pearl Jam does, I'm down with, because they have so much integrity. Pearl Jam is always trying to find new things and explore new technology, and I like that.
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All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
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Any story hits you harder if the person delivering it doesn't sound like some news robot but in fact sounds like a real person having the reactions a real person would.
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I love design-based stuff. I dug it in 'Pleasantville' and dug it in 'Seabiscuit.'
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With 'Mad Men,' people who grew up or were living in that time, they love to talk about what it was really like.
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A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.
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I didn't have many friends; I might not have had any friends. But it all turned out good in the end, because when you aren't popular and you don't have a social life, it gives you more time to focus on your future.
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When I was writing 'Shotgun,' it's one of the first songs that's come to me as an image.
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Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.
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Coach Morris wasn't too hard on me, not at all. Being drafted where I was at, there were high expectations for me. I still have high expectations for myself.
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I had a period of unemployment for about nine months after my first big break, and it's the greatest lesson I ever could have learned, never to believe you're home and dry.
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I'm not a big gadget guy. When I write, I'll do the whole thing by hand, and then I'll put it into the computer.
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I never pass up the chance to shop at vintage stores.
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The fact is that we as a party at the Republican National Committee registered 3.4 million new voters in the past two years and brought them into the political process. The president won by 3.5 million votes.
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Dalits have faced a unique discrimination in our society that is fundamentally different from the problems of minority groups in general. The only parallel to the practice of untouchability was apartheid.
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Self-help books for those who believe You can have it all often advise, Follow your bliss and money will follow. With the collapse of the stock markets the reality of trade-offs is more like, When you follow your bliss, it’s money you’ll miss.
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One of the biggest problems out there that I hear from my friends in the business community is that there's no lending, that it's tough to get a loan today.
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The 20th century is a period defined by cultural and artistic movements. However, the 21st century creative-scape that we occupy now doesn't really have movements in the same way. Instead it's made up of diverse individuals working across various platforms simultaneously; art, architecture, film, music and literature.
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One of the things that's great about doing a show over and over again... is that you have to find ways to make it spontaneous, as though everything is happening for the first time... to continue to mine the material and find new things.
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People criticize you for trying new things. I think, 'I'm new! I'm 22!' I don't know exactly what my sound is or what I want my album to sound like, so I'm not releasing it yet. While I'm experimenting, I'll let you in on the journey, and you can hear it for free.
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I can't take the theater side out of myself.
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We won the war, but we are losing the occupation and reconstruction of Iraq. It is past time for a new approach, one that relies on accountability, responsibility, and phasing down the scope of our military commitment.
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No matter who says what, you should accept it with a smile and do your own work.
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Anything that Pearl Jam does, I'm down with, because they have so much integrity. Pearl Jam is always trying to find new things and explore new technology, and I like that.
