Randy Bachman Quotes
My life has been a whole series of accidents, some of them happy, some not.
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If you make a film too American, it won't travel. It will have no life outside of its own country.
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Middle school was probably my hardest time. I was trying to fit in for so long, until about junior year of high school when I realized that trying to fit into this one image of perfection was never going to make me happy.
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It's not complicated to embrace life. You just have to make the choice.
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When you're climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
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When life catches up with us, we all need space to dream and indulge, so I have created my own special range of bath & beauty loveliness to help you find your happy place.
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All tastes have the quality of being in some way artificial and invented. The secret of life is to have enough detachment from your tastes and your values to see that they are a little bit absurd.
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We use the term 'fight' very lightly - 'I've been fighting so hard to get my car, I've been fighting so hard to get that job, I've been fighting so hard to get that girl.' But the reality is boxers do fight bitterly to get whatever they want or whatever they need in life, and most of them come from nothing, which is the case of Roberto Duran.
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Life will end in death and unhappiness, but we do it anyway.
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Most people figured I'd be in jail. I've been proving people wrong my whole life.
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I want to have fun. It's a beautiful life. You learn, you win, you lose, but you get up.
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I am quite sensitive to politics, because you know, as an Arab, an Iraqi, all your life, you are very conscious of it.
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My hardest thing was to let go, to be happy for everybody and just to enjoy. And go back to being what you were before you became an artist, and that was just a fan.
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We do hear perhaps too many accolades generally aimed at people like Steve Jobs. We have to remember that there are other classic things in life that we undervalue and take them for granted. If you think of the classic lines of the modern jet aircraft, it's really been there since early World War II.
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Wherever I go I make others feel good, and by doing this, I create life. I am a sting, and a dangerous instrument!
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I'm just going to live my life and be who I am.
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There was this girl who went to my school, and she did a Nikki Giovanni poem, 'Ego Tripping,' and it was just different from everyone else's. It wasn't flat recitation. It had an energy and a life to it. And it made me sit up in my seat, and my eyes got wide, and I really felt inside myself, 'She's making me feel things. I want to do that.'
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I knew that I did not have to buy into society's notion that I had to be handsome and healthy to be happy. I was in charge of my 'spaceship' and it was my up, my down. I could choose to see this situation as a setback or as a starting point. I chose to begin life again.
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Films like 'The Wizard of Oz' and 'Shrek' are hits because they hit on different levels with different age groups. Striking that balance is what I strive for. But I won't know if I've done it until the audience sees it.
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After joining as a youth trainee at 16 from school, in my first two or three years the club was on a financial downward spiral and there was none of the new sparkling kit and the sparkling conditions that the kids get now.
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If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.
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I wanted to be a pharmacist. I liked the way our local pharmacist was always dressed in a nice white coat; he looked very calm, you'd give him money, and he'd give you something that you wanted to buy.
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My life has been a whole series of accidents, some of them happy, some not.
