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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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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I'm very observant and very instinctive. In life, you have to have the vulnerability to accept when you are to blame. And I do have that, and I am open enough to say it.
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I grew up going to the movies, not watching them on television, so I'm still a bit resistant to TV as a medium.
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We really can't tell the difference between people who might seek power for some greater good and people who seek power just to aggrandize themselves. For example, all revolutionaries say that they want to uplift the downtrodden.
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If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.
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Only a fool does not fear actors, but you can't beat them, and if you can't beat them, join them, as they say. As I've got older I've become very interested in that part of the work.
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Yet it seems extraordinary that the justice of increasing the expectations of the better placed by a billion dollars, say, should turn on whether the prospects of the least favored increase or decrease by a penny.
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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.
