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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The thing that I learned early on is you really need to set goals in your life, both short-term and long-term, just like you do in business. Having that long-term goal will enable you to have a plan on how to achieve it.
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If youth did not matter so much to itself, it would never have the heart to go on.
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Chance, my master and my friend, will, I feel sure, deign once again to send me the spirits of his unruly kingdom. All my trust is now in him- and in myself. But above all in him, for when I go under he always fishes me out, seizing and shaking me like a life-saving dog whose teeth tear my skin a little every time. So now, whenever I despair, I no longer expect my end, but some bit of luck, some commonplace little miracle which, like a glittering link, will mend again the necklace of my days.
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That's not going to happen, because I don't want it to happen. I don't want a movie about me until I'm very, very old - when I'm very, very old, everybody that wants to play me will be middle-aged.
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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.'
