William C. Hannon Quotes
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Remember who you are and where you come from; otherwise, you don't know where you are going.
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I knew I didn't want to make a country record just because that's not really what I would have ever made as a solo artist.
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One thing I hear a lot is, 'Dude, my mom loves your record,' or 'I got it for my dad for Christmas.' I'm essentially doing dad rock. Which is great, because I love Steely Dan, you know? Nothing wrong with dad rock!
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I have really high expectations for myself, so I just want to go out there and compete.
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We who grew up with 'drop and cover' drills know all too well what wonders science can bring us, and we like to see the guy in the white lab coat suffer a little. Or a lot.
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Know or listen to those who know.
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A psychologist said to me, there are only two important questions you have to ask yourself. What do you really feel? And, what do you really want? If you can answer those two, you probably can leave your neuroses behind you.
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Many years ago, I really didn't know where the next work was coming from.
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The ability to select stocks, manage them over time and know when to sell them is incredibly difficult, even for professional fund managers.
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I'm just observing. I don't ever want people to think I'm preaching at them or wearing them out.
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I want to do stories that inspire people.
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Do what you really want to do. That's why God put you on this earth.
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I mean, we sit around and we go, you know, 'Torture doesn't work.' Well, it's been around for 5,000 years. Most stuff that doesn't work goes the way of the dodo pretty quick, like waterbeds and 8-tracks and things like that.
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It's really easy with makeup to look like you're trying too hard, like a clown. That's not what you want!
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We are all like Scheherazade's husband, in that we want to know what happens next.
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As a writer, I wouldn't know how to not take things out of my life.
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Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.
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Why would you want to do something and not be special and want the best?
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Centuries-old habitats such as coral gardens are destroyed in an instant by bottom trawls, pulverized by weighted nets into barren plains. And global carbon dioxide emissions from human activity affect the ocean, changing the pH balance of the waters in a phenomenon known as ocean acidification.
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True friendship is a promise you keep forever.
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Obviously, you want to honour the sound of your music, but I'm definitely open to trying new things and making myself use a different palette of sounds.
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I may have had a prejudice against agnosticism as a body of thought: sort of a fence-sitting theory, where you can't make up your mind one way or another.
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What I want most, is to know what You hear in the silence between us.
