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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I've had so many different influences musically, even from people who aren't even musicians. If you're inspired by someone and you document it musically, then they are your influence.
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Do the work you believe in - if there's an authentic reason for doing it.
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One thing I've learned from 'Strictly' is timing and the craft of the talk.
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We already have the material means to eradicate deep poverty and thereby eradicate hunger. We have the material means to begin the tremendous clean up of the environmental messes we've created. We have, I believe, the psychological, emotional and spiritual means to create a world without war. We have the material means to create a world in which unnecessary human suffering has been drastically diminished. My vision for the future is that we do those things. And I think we will.
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Let him the intelligent man admonish, let him teach, let him forbid what is improper ! - he will be beloved of the good, by the bad he will be hated.
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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.
