Adrian Smith Quotes
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Growing up, I was always in normal public school which is very important in my eyes.
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In a way, I'm lucky that I was never classically trained and never went to a music college. I'm just from a normal working class family and happened to get obsessed with music as a teenager.
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I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise?
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I think the difficult thing is the transition between TV competition series and going into the actual music industry. There still seems to be a slight disconnect there.
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As the CEO, I have to take care of the short term, mid term and the long term.
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You've got to change with the public's taste.
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In our view, successful reform is not an event. It is a sustainable process that will build on its own successes - a virtuous cycle of change.
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I've not really spent much time in proper studios. The room itself where you're recording, and how you live while you're there is what appeals to me.
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Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much.
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About once every four days, someone comes up to me and is like, 'Hey, I know you from somewhere.'
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I'm never in the same place for more than, like, three days at a time. Things can change from one minute to the next.
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It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.
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The ads all call me fearless, but that's just publicity. Anyone who thinks I'm not scared out of my mind whenever I do one of my stunts is crazier than I am.
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My parents were in 'Brigadoon' on Broadway when I was a couple of years old.
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The influence of one's parents is powerful and permanent.
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I feel I'm an actress who sings a bit.
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I was completely with the reality TV boom for a while. I really liked a lot of the reality TV, and the one that lost me was the ballroom dancing one they do, 'Dancing with the Stars.' That was the one where I watched it and I was perplexed. I thought it was really boring.
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If I was freer than I had ever been in my life, I was not yet entirely free, for I still hung on to an idea that had been set deep in me by all my schooling so far: I was a bright boy and I ought to make something out of myself... something else that would be a cut or two above my humble origins.
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God far exceeds all words that we can here express In silence He is heard, in silence worshiped best
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To get elected in Mexico today, you have to compete like any democracy, and you don't do that by being manipulated.
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Women seem not to understand, or underestimate, the profound power they have over their husbands.
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I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says "Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.
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I get to fish a lot of wild and wonderful places on tour.
