Brian Setzer Quotes
I didn't want to take the guitar solos down note-for-note, but more or less use them as a map, and keep all the hooks from the guitar playing, and let myself come through.
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We are obliged, therefore, to say that whoever speaks that which is foreign to religion is using many words, while he who speaks the words of truth, even should he go over the whole field and omit nothing, is always speaking the one word.
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Obviously, you want to honour the sound of your music, but I'm definitely open to trying new things and making myself use a different palette of sounds.
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The navigation of our inland waters has for years been sought in vain by foreign countries, and if we grant the privilege to Russia, other States will be guided in their demands by her example.
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I love Katy Perry and Lady GaGa. I think GaGa's pushing the envelope every day and I really like that.
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If your response to the first black president is to say they weren't born in this country... you might be a white supremacist.
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I am a common man. Why do I need security?
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I buy companies for strategic reasons and operate them.
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Sometimes it is claimed by those who argue that race is just a social construct that the human genome project shows that because people share roughly 99% of their genes in common, that there are no races. This is silly.
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I think with anything where you delve into the back story of an artist, it kind of explains their work more intimately.
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If you have a line of business - I know this as a CEO - or if you have a teenager - I know this as a parent - who have a spending problem, what do you do? You quit giving them money.
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Amazon has historically been a bully, and I don't shop there. But I love Goodreads. For the record.
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'Saawariya' was my debut film. It will always be the most special film.
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I come from a place, with all due respect, who's never had a music star in hip-hop. So the odds is already against me.
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Now, being one who lived in the era of Obama, there are so many markers of improvement made. It's hard to be mindful of that, in the same way you're going, 'Oh everything's cool now!' and it isn't. But I try to be mindful of how much of an improvement there has been because that gives hope. You need hope. I need hope!
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The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.
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Lispers are among the best grads of the Sweep-It-Under-Someone-Else's-Carpet School of Simulated Simplicity. [Was that sufficiently incendiary?]
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My mother once told me never be a second-rate version of somebody else when you can be a first-rate version of yourself.
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to Rupert Grint Look at the great city of LA stretched out in front of you, son: there's dangerous people living in that cardboard backdrop.
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Beauty is subjective: Bette Davis wasn't beautiful, but she was more than beautiful.
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To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind.
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Both poker and investing are games of incomplete information. You have a certain set of facts and you are looking for situations where you have an edge, whether the edge is psychological or statistical.
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Speaking, writing, and signing are the three ways in which a language lives and breathes. They are the three mediums through which a language is passed on from one generation to the next.
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I didn't want to take the guitar solos down note-for-note, but more or less use them as a map, and keep all the hooks from the guitar playing, and let myself come through.
