Jimi Hendrix Quotes
The truth is straight ahead, so don't burn yourself instead.
Quotes to Explore
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I can no longer walk in the street. That's over.
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I doubt I'll ever have another traditional print deal.
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There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.
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Everyone knows that Apple crushed Microsoft in the mobile era. But it was exactly the opposite in the PC Wars of the 1980s and 1990s.
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During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always work.
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A man's primary fantasy is access to a variety of attractive women without the fear of rejection.
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The only people who never fail are those who never try.
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National independence, and the preceding political struggles, helped create the space for literary creation in many post-colonial countries. Much of modern Indian or Chinese literature is inconceivable without the political movement for freedom from foreign rule.
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My wife has a horror the children will start talking American if we spend too much time out there.
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Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?
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What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
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The motivation for making movies is that people actually see them.
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I did 'Mad Men' and I still have people come up to me like, 'Are you actually a lesbian?' Really? Just because I play one on TV? People will think what they're gonna think.
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I worked for Microsoft until 1996, till I had a different angle to view life. I wanted to be an entrepreneur and control my own destiny.
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Simplicity should not be identified with bareness.
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Be kind. It's worthwhile to make an effort to learn about other people and figure out what you might have in common with them.
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My mom and dad are New Yorkers who left the tenement streets of the Bronx and came to Los Angeles when 'West Side Story' was real. They have the scars to prove it.
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'I sucked a lot of liberal cocks to get where I am today.'
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I must say, I am a 10,000-times better director because I am in therapy. I'm serious. I can understand more the actors. I can manipulate them more easily.
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Every time I listen back to solos of mine I'll hear something I like and then another phrase that I can't stand. You have to live with what you play. And the recording medium puts that on us. When I play live gigs I don't think so much like that.
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People like Dick Gregory, Paul Robeson, Harry Belafonte and Nina Simone show me what the definition of an artist is - it isn't just to make art but to speak truth to what's happening, speak beauty into the world, speak love into the world and also... get involved.
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... in the history of the human mind there has never been a useful thought or a profound truth that has not found its century and admirers.
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I love to rock 'n roll. But my finest suit, of all the things I do, is as a songwriter.
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The truth is straight ahead, so don't burn yourself instead.
