James Hetfield Quotes
'Are you saying it's too loud? It's got to be loud. You're supposed to feel it all over.'
Quotes to Explore
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Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.
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You always need that spark of imagination. Sometimes I'm midway through a book before it happens. However, I don't wait for the muse to descend, I sit down every day and I work when I'm not delivering lambs on the farm.
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Even a genius cannot completely resist his Zeitgeist, the spirit of his time.
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If I were dead, then nobody in England would have to fuss about the cost of my security and whether or not I merited such special treatment for so long.
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If we hold the poverty thought, the penury thought, the thought of lack, we cannot demonstrate abundance. We must hold the plenty thought if we would reach plenty.
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The ways in which readers encounter and relate to information is dramatically influenced by their education as well as their awareness of the pitfalls relating to the information source.
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Auditions are not a natural environment, and you feel judged, even though everyone is just excited to find the right person.
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I love the novels of Didion and Bret Ellis and consider them L.A. writers because they write about L.A.
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The camera photographs what's there.
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I realize now I didn't really want to die. I just wanted to stop the hurt and pain.
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The greatest gift God has given me is the capacity of love for people. I have so many faults, but caring about people is not one of them.
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People want to think that staying in shape costs a lot of money. They couldn't be more wrong. It doesn't cost anything to walk. And it's probably a lot cheaper to go to the corner store and buy vegetables than take a family out for fast food.
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The most brilliant satire of all time was 'A Modest Proposal' by Jonathan Swift. You'll notice how everything got straightened out in Ireland within days of that coming out.
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The biggest compliment I get is when someone tells me, 'You're so real.' Even if my journey isn't exactly like theirs.
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Every single one of us has a few months here or there that feel like dark months.
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What you do is, you just do the gig, enjoy, get on with it, and treat the rest as horse doodle.
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Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
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Can desire grow out of admiration, or are the two quite distinct species? What would it be like to lie side by side, naked, breast to breast, with a woman one principally admires?
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I don't like rules, because rules, you have to follow.
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You must go to Mahometanism, to Buddhism, to the East, to the Sufis & Fakirs, to Pantheism, for the right growth of mysticism.
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One yearns unspeakably for a composer who gives out his pair of honest themes, and then develops them unashamed, and then hangs a brisk coda to them, and then shuts up.
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I think I have experience in rowing, and that has given me some ability to go about racing. I'm lucky genetically. I have a good VO2 max - I can hold a lot of air in my lungs - and that definitely helps.
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'Are you saying it's too loud? It's got to be loud. You're supposed to feel it all over.'
