Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.
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Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination.
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Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest.
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We care about margins.
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The civil rights fight was a very important fight.
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Tech never comes back the same.
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I read mails throughout the day but answer mails more in the morning and evening.
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Even if the songs are at times painful - 'cause some of the songs are not all roses and balloons; some of them dig into deep things that I've been going through - there's a joy that I think people feel from my music and, hopefully, from my performance because I am so in love with doing what I do.
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Everyone in Tool is interested in how we present our music. We write a group of songs that have a vibe, energy and feeling, and then we try to pick an image to capture that and communicate a feeling. We want something that adds to the connection with the audience.
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I'm here because of what I write. Obviously, I must know something.
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If you care about yourself and what you do, you get nervous about it. You just don't take the money and go home.
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When you're trying to accomplish lofty goals, and when you're attacking something of great magnitude, you have to have help.
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I'm a piece of work, man. I will do what I want, at all times, always. Nobody's going to persuade me one way or another. I can't be persuaded. I take criticism, I listen, I analyze, but at the end of the day, I make the decisions. Because that's the way I started, and that's the way I'm going to finish.
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I'm a loner.
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I'm just someone who observes a lot.
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One of the great dilemmas for America will be that American companies will do very well while American workers might not.
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To be honest, after you've crossed the line at the Olympic Games, it is bedlam for the next, about, five or six hours. Media, press conference, dope control - you might get some food if you're lucky. You might see family if you're lucky.
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President Bush in his inaugural address talked about bringing freedom to countries that don't have it. He didn't specify how.
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Writing is a solitary existence. Making a movie is controlled chaos - thousands of moving parts and people. Every decision is a compromise. If you're writing and you don't like how your character looks or talks, you just fix it. But in a movie, if there's something you don't like, that's tough.
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Most non-New Yorkers, finding themselves within hearing range of strangers' conversation, think it's nice to pretend they didn't hear. But many New Yorkers think it's nice to toss in a relevant comment.
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As for my feelings toward "Over the Rainbow", it's become part of my life. It is so symbolic of all dreams and wishes that I'm sure that's why people sometimes get tears in their eyes when they hear it.
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China's movie industry is growing a lot faster than that of the U.S.
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The vessel, though her masts be firm,Beneath her copper bears a worm.
