Dan Monson Quotes
You're waiting for something good to happen to get going, but it's a catch-22. You've got to do something to get yourself going.
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Law gave me some structure... all these rules and internal disciplines.
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I say I have Spanish in me, but I'm not just Spanish. I'm proud of my ethnicities, and I will always be proud of being a Filipino.
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I like to fight, and I think the fans want to see a good fight, too.
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I had those kind of parents where I watched all of these very sophisticated movies: 'Five Easy Pieces', 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.'
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I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit.
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The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
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The effort of every time I put out a video, it was like, 'Okay, I've got to put it on my Facebook, I've got to put it on my website, what's the view count now? What's the view count now? What's the view count now?' You get obsessive with it.
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Sound as medium has an incredible elasticity. So, of course, it is tempting for artists of other fields to try something with sounds. Why not? We are living in the age when there is no limit in gathering all forms of art and music to mix it together if you so desire.
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My parents separated when I was young, and as a result, my father had to learn how to braid our hair on the nights my sisters and I would stay with him. We would arrive to school the next morning with these incredibly endearing lopsided braids he had fashioned. This may have expedited the process of my learning how to braid my own hair.
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It was very difficult to control the descent. At a height of seven kilometres, I catapulted out of my capsule and parachuted down to Earth. I was very familiar with parachutes because I was a sky diver before.
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If you use tact you can say anything, then make it funny.
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Only work which is the product of inner compulsion can have spiritual meaning.
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In high school, I played in a Rush cover band.
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I am not very tough with raising my children, but you can argue that to be more tough will help your children.
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Personally, love is very important for me. There are lots of ordinary things in life, so love should be extraordinary. I hope I achieve that.
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Orson Welles was one of these people who was defying everything the doctors told him he wasn't supposed to be doing. He was really enjoying himself when he was eating what he wanted to eat.
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I don't have to show that I am working very hard.
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I talk to women's groups all over the country and see women struggling with this. The fear of not being accepted, of being different, of not having a man, all make it hard for a woman to do what she really believes is right for her.
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The point is, how do you know the Guarantee Fairy isn't a crazy glue sniffer.
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Be Skeptical, but learn to listen.
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I knew I could never match my father as a violinist, and there were already four generations of outstanding cellists in the family.
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I'm a practical person. Most fashion people live in the clouds, and they're full of it. I live like a human being - or, I try to - and I have to be intelligent; I have to be practical. I'm a great believer in common sense, and the older I get, I see that common sense is not that common.
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The Clash will always be from London, and we will always be from New Jersey. But New Jersey doesn't create us.
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You're waiting for something good to happen to get going, but it's a catch-22. You've got to do something to get yourself going.
