Billy Gibbons Quotes
I've been touted for my guacamole. I'll stand by my method. People have asked me to come to their home and prepare it. Restaurants have asked me about it.
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Sometimes 'Rookie' is written about like, 'Finally! Something for alternative girls!' and I'm like, 'No!' Obviously it's not for everyone, but I used to think that there are cheerleaders, and there are art kids.
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To be slandered the way I get slandered is really uncalled for, but life goes on.
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My mother and my grandmother are pioneers of Mexican cuisine in this country, so I grew up in the kitchen. My mom, Zarela Martinez, was by far my biggest influence and inspiration - and toughest critic.
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I know you can be up one minute and drop the next, so I'm trying to maintain a steady course so I can have some longevity.
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Companies that are willing to share, to withhold in order to further the growth of the company, willing to try to get a better atmosphere through a demonstration of democratic principles, fairness and cooperation, a better product, those will win in the end.
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I grew up on Don Knotts and Jerry Lewis and all the guys from Second City.
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If you're a novelist, as I am in real life, you're usually so desperate for any kind of feedback.
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I own a guitar, a piano, a bass.
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Any deal that allows Iran to enrich uranium, which allows them to ultimately break out within a few months with a nuclear weapon, is a disaster for the world.
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Generally, I find a lot to be grateful for.
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Teachability and trust always leads to total obedience.
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I probably spend the most time with Toews: we have the same schedule, and we're roomies on the road; we sit next to each other. We do a lot of promotions together.
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Our original name was Wild Country, but when we first went to The Bowery, they had the name of all 50 states around the edge of the club, so we went to the sign that said 'Alabama' and stuck our band name underneath it.
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I'm a pro-horserace guy.
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Wherever I go for the military, they always call me Lt. Dan. They just can't help it.
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When I bought a collection of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky, I returned home with a bright enthusiasm to begin the long march into the Russian soul. Though I've failed to read either man to completion, they both helped me to imagine that my fictional South Carolina was as vast a literary acreage as their Russia.
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I've always been a dreamer.
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I was forbidden to talk to my fellow hostages.
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I don't think a lot of bands and artists work as hard as we do on the creation, on the writing, the arrangements and the recording in our format.
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I did not become great by association of The Beatles! Beatles make Maharishi great? Pah! It is a waste of thought.
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This profession has no rhythm to it - you're either busy enough to fall down, or nothing's happening!
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I am left alone in the wide world. My own dear family I have buried: one in Rangoon, and two in Amherst. What remains for me but to hold myself in readiness to follow the dear departed to that blessed world, 'Where my best friends, my kindred dwell, where God, my Saviour, reigns.'
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I've been touted for my guacamole. I'll stand by my method. People have asked me to come to their home and prepare it. Restaurants have asked me about it.
