Tom Scholz Quotes
I played in a couple of really crummy bands, including one in the dorm I was in at MIT, for a year or two.
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Cottonmouth is the result of having to react to his circumstances. He had to, in some ways, take control of the situation and own his circumstances. But as a result of that, he became a person he didn't intend to become.
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A sack is way better than any nightclub. A touchdown is way better than any bar experience I've ever had.
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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
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Writing is challenging work because it's so easy to get consumed with how it's going, what's going to happen to it, who's going to like or not like it. You want to get all of that stuff out of your head and just let the work flow.
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I like to be underdressed rather than overdressed. For an event or a premiere, it's fun to dress up more - then I like to experiment.
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You have plausible deniability, as they say in politics, as an author with movies. Because if the movie is terrible, you simply say they failed to catch the genius of the book.
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You have to find something there that relates to the characters and reality on some level.
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The true Tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs.
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No, it's a Bb. It looks wrong and it sounds wrong, but it's right.
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You need to understand the batsman, where he plays his shot usually, which is his release shot, and then change the angle, vary the pace, line and length. You cannot always react after being at the receiving end.
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I feel great physically. I feel really good.
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For me, to just have my own shoe is unbelievable. As a kid, you see Jordans and wonder what that feels like to have your own shoe, and the fact that I have one is really surreal.
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Congress is attempting to eviscerate women's health care. Like many women across America, I am outraged.
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Give a man a free hand and he'll run it all over you.
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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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I've committed to surfing the rest of my life.
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I'd been coming to New York for weekends since I was 17, and after 9/11, I started making these trips more frequently, just to make contact with the city.
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We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely prescribe its properties a priori.
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I must say that it's easy to write nice things about Chicago because it's that kind of town.
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For live you need a microphone for the snare and the high hat, the kick drum, a nice stereo overhead and one for the toms - you can get away with using four mikes.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.
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Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity.
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I don't type on the computer or edit. Law students who went to law school really just a couple years after I did were brought up all on the computers and that's how they do it, but I was still part of the older school.
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I played in a couple of really crummy bands, including one in the dorm I was in at MIT, for a year or two.
