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 have Chinese blood in me... I am not ashamed to admit that perhaps the great leaders of our country all have Chinese blood.
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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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You have only a short period of time in your life to make your mark, and I'm there now.
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In New York alone, there was an average of more than 300 campus fires per year between 1997 and 2000, with roughly 160 of them annually in dormitories.
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To be political means to speak out, to risk being called 'catty', or worse. I don't hear men worrying about whether they may be right or not. They enjoy the fight, whether it is with words or fists. Women still tend to shy away from controversy, to be uncomfortable with competition.
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Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.
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The vessel, though her masts be firm,Beneath her copper bears a worm.
