Adrian Smith Quotes
The band has always stayed close to its fans and not sold out. That's a very rare thing. I can see how rare that is having been outside of the band for eight years. Maiden has integrity. I think people appreciate that.
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There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
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I don't even own a television. I don't watch network television.
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My parents would definitely be my childhood heroes.
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I'm Cuban, so I know a lot of people who act like vampires. But wait, vampires have to be invited to your house, so maybe they are nothing like Latinos!
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Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
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I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.
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Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.
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God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.
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We go after legacies because we just know that, sooner or later, people will understand what we bring to this culture and bring to the game.
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I'm a very simple man. You've got to have, like, a computer nowadays to turn the TV on and off... and the nightmare continues.
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I am at war... with the principal personage of traditional philosophy, that abstract subject who masquerades as everyone and anyone, but is really a male subject in disguise.
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My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't such a tragic ending.
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I am one of maybe three people in the world who knows anything about Robert W. Chambers.
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When I was a kid, I wanted to be a baseball player.
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Only free people have an incentive to be virtuous. Only people who bear the consequences of their own acts will care about those consequences and try to learn from their mistakes.
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I'm not a villain, I've never hurt anyone. I'm just a tawdry character who explodes now and again.
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Investment in training is a huge necessity for knowledge-based corporations.
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If a man is pictured chopping off a woman's breast, it only gets a R rating, but if, God forbid, a man is pictured kissing a woman's breast, it gets an X rating. Why is violence more acceptable than tenderness?
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Songs are more powerful than books.
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I was excited to play Lil' Kim and I wanted to do the role justice. I worked really hard on that role, whether it was performing the rhymes, studying the dialect, her swagger and her stage performances. I wanted people to see my range and stretch my wings as an actress.
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I don't think I get the respect as a singer. With this record, I wanted to bring respect to my band.
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I've done some music for films and I really enjoy doing it.
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The band has always stayed close to its fans and not sold out. That's a very rare thing. I can see how rare that is having been outside of the band for eight years. Maiden has integrity. I think people appreciate that.
