Randy Bachman Quotes
I look on most religions as fear-based rather than love-based. I've drifted away from all that. Yes, I think I'm more spiritual. I just don't go and pretend every Saturday or Sunday that I'm in this wonderful club. I'm exploring.
Quotes to Explore
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I know when it's getting close to game time, I create a different playlist for each and every game. Before the game, to game time, to warm-ups, going to the stadium, I have a different playlist that puts me in a different mode.
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Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'
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I don't mind being interviewed on television or radio.
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I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.
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My dad was pretty strict. We didn't even get to watch any of his movies until I was, like, 17 years old. I didn't even see his stand-up, really, until I started doing stand-up, and that was when I was 22. So he's pretty strict. We had curfews until I was 17... he didn't play around.
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The great thing about baseball is there's a crisis every day.
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Once I looked into a mirror at my face I felt like it was completely convincing. I was Salieri.
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I feel like I became an artist by default. I went to art college, but my interest was always more towards film than painting or sculpture.
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I lived in America for a long time before I started working as an actor. Some actors show up on set and have never done an American accent before, so they rely on a slew of technical mechanisms. Part of what makes an accent is understanding why people speak that way - you have to understand the culture.
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My background is that of a competitive athlete and a fighter, and I'm bringing something totally different to 'The Biggest Loser' that wasn't there before.
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My work is not so much a direct commentary as it is an open-ended observation of the absurdities around us.
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I'm not going to lie; the most fun of writing these books is just saying, 'Where am I going to write about? Let me go there!'
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I am a crazy Maverick fan. I would go there if Dallas was a great entertainment center.
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I lost 'The X Factor,' and I lost 'Deal or No Deal' twice. I'm good at losing game shows.
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I'm the guy that has written at great length about exactly how we should profoundly reform Social Security. If I were afraid of going after entitlements, I wouldn't have done that, I wouldn't have put Medicaid reform in this budget, I wouldn't have called for the reductions in spending, which people will scream about, but I think are necessary.
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My mom was Jewish, so some would call me Jewish.
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You learn so much on set; I don't know if you learn as much anywhere else as you do when you're on set, working.
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What role should religion play in the American public school classroom? My own knee-jerk response would be, 'none whatsoever,' but the Constitution isn't quite so direct on the subject.
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You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.
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The living ideas of the dead are more powerful and effective than the dead ideas of the living.
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Most people fear pain. I've learned that not feeling pain is a much more frightening proposition than feeling it. In fact, there are times when I'm playing when I actually enjoy it.
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those misgivings were surely put to rest by the lengthy statement we have just heard.
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A good watch may serve to keep a recconing at Sea for some days and to know the time of a Celestial Observation: and for this end a good Jewel watch may suffice till a better sort of Watch can be found out. But when the Longitude at sea is once lost, it cannot be found again by any watch.
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I look on most religions as fear-based rather than love-based. I've drifted away from all that. Yes, I think I'm more spiritual. I just don't go and pretend every Saturday or Sunday that I'm in this wonderful club. I'm exploring.
