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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I always loved song writers who wrote songs in the first person, so it's kind of like that.
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The first rule of management is delegation. Don't try and do everything yourself because you can't.
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If no other knowledge deserves to be called useful but that which helps to enlarge our possessions or to raise our station in society, then Mythology has no claim to the appellation.
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You've got to do the big studio movies to get your name, but as an actor and for your own well-being you kind of need to step back from that occasionally and do the smaller films. In the end, that's what helps you learn and makes you a better actor.
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The vessel, though her masts be firm,Beneath her copper bears a worm.
