Ed Thigpen Quotes
Do you know why they call a drummer's seat a throne? Because drummers are kings and queens.
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There has to be a balance between power and vulnerability. That's something I feel I have in my own life, something I struggle with and - on a good day - like about myself.
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I started cooking out of middle school depression.
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In dating, the question is how many Tinder knockoffs are we going to have, and are any of them going to take off?
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Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.
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I am most attached to my mother, who always travels with me when I am on an outdoor location or abroad. She is my friend, who I share everything with.
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At heart, I'm a relationship guy, but my adventurous side makes it hard. I hope I'll find a balance.
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People are literally tracking everything. People are becoming more empowered and knowing what's going into their body.
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I try to choose the songs that really are basically coming from my heart. I think that through the songs that I select, people know what's going on in my life.
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I pulled Lena's necklace out of my pocket. I let the charms roll around in my palm, but they were tangled and meaningless without her. The necklace was heavier than I imagined, or maybe it was the weight of my conscience.
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What makes a scientist great is the care that he takes in telling you what is wrong with his results, so that you will not misuse them.
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The prevailing style of management must undergo transformation. A system can not understand itself. The transformation requires a view from outside.
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... a woman who is not feminine is a monster in creation.
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The prophesying business is like writing fugues; it is fatal to every one save the man of absolute genius.
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And this is the final meaning of work: the extension of human consciousness. The lesser meaning of work is the achieving of self-preservation.
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You cannot go on 'explaining away' for ever: you will find that you have explained explanation itself away. You cannot go on 'seeing through' things for ever. The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it.
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Thomas Friedman's 'The World is Flat' sold more copies in India than in the U.K. The market for go-getting business books or wonkish tomes by corporate moguls posing as philosopher kings has grown dramatically in modernising China and India.
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Unless you're Stephen King or Joyce Carol Oates, no one's going to recognize you on the street, and you're promoting your book, not yourself.
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Timidity does not inspire bold acts.
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There are certain things which are lost by being kept and saved by being used. Any individual talent is like that. If it is used, it will develop into something still greater. If someone refuses to use it, in the end that talent will be lost. Supremely so, life is like that.
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Do you know why they call a drummer's seat a throne? Because drummers are kings and queens.
