Zakk Wylde Quotes
You have to have passion for anything you do. Whether it's sports, whether it's music, whether you want to be Mother Theresa, you have to have passion for what it is you do, or what's the point in getting up in the morning and getting out of bed?
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With a face like this, there aren't a lot of lawyers or priest roles coming my way. I've got a face that was meant for a mug shot, and that's what I've been doing for the past thirty years.
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What goes for sex goes double for politics.
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I've always had an affinity for the fashion industry - I've always been drawn to it. But I grew up in Calgary in Canada, which, being a fairly isolated city, is not particularly known for having anything to do with fashion.
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If you want to do stuff, you have to be able to handle controversy.
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People should know what they want, not just what they don't want.
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When people arrive at El Bulli, everybody goes through the kitchen. It's a way of making them feel at home. When they leave, the only thing I ask is whether they've been happy. Everything in between, I don't particularly care.
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Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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Pacific Islands are among those that contribute least to global warming, yet suffer most.
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When I was in high school in the early 1970s, we knew we were running out of oil; we knew that easy sources were being capped; we knew that diversifying would be much better; we knew that there were terrible dictators and horrible governments that we were enriching who hated us. We knew all that and we did really nothing.
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I'm somewhat of a perfectionist, I think, and I strive for perfection.
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Chicago is one city. We shall work as one people for our common good and our common goals.
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One has to be fully committed to one's career. Otherwise, there's no point.
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I'd like to make something about someone who hasn't existed so that I don't have to tread so carefully and can feel a little bit more creative freedom.
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I started traveling by myself as early as 5 to see my dad. I'd go to Toronto or Los Angeles, depending on what show he was doing, but most often New York, and we would hang out, and he'd take me to museums and Broadway plays. The ones that had the biggest impact on me were the George C. Wolfe productions.
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I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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Most people consider me an optimist because I laughingly state that I would take my last two dollars and buy a money belt.
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I always say: To be well dressed you must be well naked.
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They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.
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For generations, even many otherwise decent white Southerners learned to despise black people.
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If I were Sarah Palin, would I want to sit in an interview with someone who was secretly out to get me? Probably not.
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I was very lucky to have a mother who encouraged me to become a poet.
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This is about systemic, institutional corruption, not personality. To ask the Democratic leadership to clean things up would be like asking the old Soviet bureaucracy under Brezhnev to reform itself. It ain't going to happen.
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You have to have passion for anything you do. Whether it's sports, whether it's music, whether you want to be Mother Theresa, you have to have passion for what it is you do, or what's the point in getting up in the morning and getting out of bed?
