Paul Doucette Quotes
I think the biggest challenge for drummers is knowing what not to play. Everybody wants to be recognized, but in a three-minute pop song it’s hard to be recognized if you’re the drummer—and you have to be okay with that.
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If you have a movie coming out, and people are talking about you, the amount of scripts will build.
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My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
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If you don't want to get bored with what you're doing, you have to change.
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There is but one man to whom I am willing to entrust their future and that man's name is George Bush.
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Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.
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I think you just have to accept the fact that no one lives forever, and eventually things are going to come to an end, whether it's a TV show or life.
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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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When I get to work with someone like Prabhu Dheva at the beginning on my career, why would I say no?
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It's really important to me not to be a snob about age division or about genre or whatever. The story needs to be what the story needs to be.
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I don't have any real spirituality in my life - I'm kind of an atheist - but when music can take me to the highest heights, it's almost like a spiritual feeling. It fills that void for me.
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If in 1989 I said, 'I have an idea: Bottle water and sell it. And charge more than a beer,' they would have chased me around with a giant butterfly net. The same with paying to watch a television station.
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If I would have won that Olympic gold medal, I would have gotten a job somewhere coaching at a university, and I would be totally content with my life.
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I feel a big obligation to the audience, almost in a moral sense, to say something useful. If I'm going to spend a year of my life on these things, I want something that I feel that strongly about.
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I love the word 'dearth,' by the way. It's one of my favorite words.
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I don't look at myself as a Scream Queen, and I don't plan on continuing on this genre route. If anything, I want to go very different places.
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Dialogue is like jazz. Dialogue is creative.
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Just like music, sports elevates us to new levels of achievment.
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I am, and remain, passionate about news.
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The primary aim of yoga is to restore the mind to simplicity, peace, and poise, to free it from confusion and distress.
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It has long been recognized that the problems with alcohol relate not to the use of a bad thing, but to the abuse of a good thing.
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I definitely don't want to play by myself. I don't relate to playing music that way. I like interacting with people.
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My goal is the same, work like last year, play hard all the time. Try and score goals.
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Really, our expectations will not change. I say it every year. We respect Texas. We've been on both sides of it. We've been picked behind them before, and we've been picked ahead of them before. We'll get off the bus when it's time to play.
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I think the biggest challenge for drummers is knowing what not to play. Everybody wants to be recognized, but in a three-minute pop song it’s hard to be recognized if you’re the drummer—and you have to be okay with that.
