Derrick Bostrom Quotes
Now that the fair is moving on and the Puppets are off to the next gig, I wanted to thank everyone for the nice wishes, both from the social media and from those of you I saw in person Thursday night.
Quotes to Explore
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You hear about bands who say, "We did one show where only 20 people showed up", well that was our average gig for five years.
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For what God gives I thank indeed; What He withholds I do not need.
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People come up to me and they thank me: 'I thank you for the many, many hours of laughter.'
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There is no better way to thank God for your sight than by giving a helping hand to someone in the dark.
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Well, there's not a day goes by when I don't get up and say thank you to somebody.
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[at soundcheck in an empty hall] Good Evening Kreuth, thank you for coming so much...
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Thank you for standing strong together, and for keeping your faith in this institution that means so much to all of us.
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I saw my first gig here actually (Festival Hall in Brisbane) Duran Duran.
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I was walking across King's Cross station when a drunken Irishman came stumbling up and flung his arms around me. He wanted to thank me for the peace process in Northern Ireland.
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My mother and father definitely encouraged me. People used to tell my mom that I should be in commercials, and then everything kicked off from there, and my first gig was some print work.
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I'm just naturally quite toned. My dad was like a body builder, so I've got my dad's body. Not all of it, thank God.
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My very first gig was with the Sex Pistols, and it was also our first-ever gig. It was a very short set, and it was at Saint Martins College of Art in 1975. We were opening up for a band called Bazooka Joe, and their bass player at the time was Adam Ant, who went on to form Adam and the Ants.
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When I was nearly twelve years old, my kind mistress sickened and died.
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I had a very strong feeling about the Vietnam War, and I had a strong feeling about participating in it. The military draft was in place, I was summoned for a physical exam, and I was either going to be classified as fit for military service or make my objection to it. So I made my objection to it.
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Courage - you develop courage by doing small things like just as if you wouldn't want to pick up a 100-pound weight without preparing yourself.
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Maybe there's a different story when it comes to hip-hop or different genres, but as far as rock music goes, I think there is a sort of fear of saying things people might be apt to criticize. Our band is the opposite of that.
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For this relay there was a little more pressure because it's the 200, you have to make sure you swim it smart. The 100 was more about energy.
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We are caught up in a paradox, one which might be called the paradox of conceptualization. The proper concepts are needed to formulate a good theory, but we need a good theory to arrive at the proper concepts.
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We have gone a long way toward civilization and religious tolerance, and we have a good example in this country. Here the many Protestant denominations, the Catholic Church and the Greek Orthodox Church do not seek to destroy one another in physical violence just because they do not interpret every verse of the Bible in exactly the same way. Here we now have the freedom of all religions, and I hope that never again will we have a repetition of religious bigotry, as we have had in certain periods of our own history. There is no room for that kind of foolishness here.
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Well, I don't want to be king, I want to be real.
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Now that the fair is moving on and the Puppets are off to the next gig, I wanted to thank everyone for the nice wishes, both from the social media and from those of you I saw in person Thursday night.
