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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They cannot count on the press and they cannot count on Congressional committees to bring the problems of the scientific community to their own attention, or to police the scientific community.
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Chat with Jerry Cantrell at ESPN.com (November 29, 2011).
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I was a jazz major in high school, in an all-jazz band. No matter what I do, it features my musical influences.
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History repeats itself again, I guess. The rate of innovation is so high in our industry that if you don't innovate at that speed you can be replaced pretty quickly. The user interface on the iPhone, with all due respect for what this invention was all about, is now five years old.
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Virtue is chok'd with foul ambition
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I get to fish a lot of wild and wonderful places on tour.
