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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I wish they'd shut the gates, and let us play ball with no press and no fans.
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To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
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Image is powerful, but image is also superficial.
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In silence and in meditation on the eternal truths, I hear the voice of God which excites our hearts to greater love.
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Well, there is a contradiction in a sense. If you're making commercials which sell products which are unhealthy or which are unnecessary, I think that you are part of a system - I am part of a system which encourages people to buy things and do things which are not to their best interest. And to that extent you could say it was contradictory.
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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.
