Billy Cobham Quotes
If the situation presents itself, I'm always going to play as if I want the job. You either play, or get played out.
Quotes to Explore
-
For women in, say, Alabama, 'feminism' is a dirty word. They would never march in the streets. But although they don't think of themselves as the beneficiaries of feminism, they are.
-
I've always said I wanted to play in England. There was a struggle between Chelsea and United, but according to me, Chelsea has the best project.
-
I think the new generation is much more demanding about respect for the environment than we have ever imagined.
-
I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
-
My parents would have loved it if my brother or I had become a doctor or lawyer.
-
Considering retirement is like skirting with the reality of what's to come, and I think that's why so many athletes decide to do more introspection at that point.
-
By placing discretion in the hands of an official to grant or deny a license, such a statute creates a threat of censorship that by its very existence chills free speech.
-
I am Lebanese, and I know the interests of my country.
-
No Arab ruler will consider the peace process seriously so long as he is able to toy with the idea of achieving more by the way of violence.
-
I grew up thinking that singing was my security.
-
Transient bodies are only subject to destruction through their substance and not through their form, nor can the essence of their form be destroyed; in this respect, they are permanent.
-
Kansas is great - and great for America, when, more and more, we honor every human life everywhere.
-
The corporations are shoving just the worst music down everybody's throats, and I think the result of that is that nobody has any taste. They have no bar as to what is good.
-
The real lover of cats is one who demands a clearer adjustment to the universe than ordinary household platitudes provide; one who refuses to swallow the sentimental notion that all good people love dogs, children, and horses while all bad people dislike and are disliked by such.
-
I remember very well, when I was at Oxford, an old gentleman said to me, 'Young man, ply your book diligently now, and acquire a stock of knowledge; for when years come upon you, you will find that poring upon books will be but an irksome task.'
-
It's good to be sexy, but when that's all they can see - no.
-
The reality is, we don’t want our kids to be smart. We want them to be like us. Only more so.
-
somos todos mortales hasta el primer beso y el segundo vaso
-
Conservatives believe government's principal functions are the preservation of freedom and removal of restraints on the individual. Liberalism's ascent in the first two-thirds of this century reflected the new belief that government should also confer capacities on individuals. Liberalism's decline in the final third of this century has reflected doubts about whether government can be good at that, or whether government that is good at that is good for the nation's character.
-
Mexico has never been anybody's backyard.
-
It's only when you make the process your goal that the big dream can follow.
-
Everyone explains that discussions about Socialism are exceedingly obscure; this obscurity is due, to a large extent, to the fact that contemporary socialists use a terminology which no longer corresponds to their ideas.
-
If the situation presents itself, I'm always going to play as if I want the job. You either play, or get played out.
