Rick Nielsen Quotes
I'm in a band. I have the basic idea, but when you surround yourself with really good players, why would I tell anyone what to play, because they're that good. They don't tell me what to play. They might encourage me, so that's what I do. I encourage them.
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It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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I still have my old Nintendo 64 that works. And I hook it up, and I still play the original 'Goldeneye.' I'm that geek. I have an 'NBA Jam' arcade machine in my office at 'SNL.'
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I play tons of authority figures, whether it's the dad or the cop or the boss. I think it's a combination of how I look, who I am.
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I didn't know Albert back then - I just learned to play that way. He and I were the only guys that played left-handed. Then left-handed people came from every direction.
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Sports in Indonesia aren't being supported by the government. The rewards you get as a young player don't match the effort you put in. I want to be different from other athletes, if not better, and I want to make something good out of my profile and help the younger players have opportunities.
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Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction.
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Sure, we've had our fair share of ups and downs, but I don't know if we've had more than any other rock band... we just have a way of getting ourselves into hot water.
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I'm not sitting around thinking of ideas for TV shows.
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I wanted no part of losing. Why play if you can't beat the other guys more often than they beat you?
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I am lucky that the Western world chooses me to play roles in their movies an television, whatever language it may be.
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Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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What you hear about the band is always going to be more disturbing than any particular song.
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I have never had the opportunity to play in England, so I know little about it.
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I never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead sober.
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It is important to nurture any new ideas and initiatives which can make a difference for Africa.
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Chileans have this rumor that they're great soccer players, but I stunk as a soccer player. I always had to hide my nationality when they were picking teams because, just by the look of me, they would think that I was a great soccer player.
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Art is based on very clear, mathematical principles like proportion and harmony. At the same time, physicists need to be inventive, to have ideas, to have some fantasy.
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After a post-Bill Berry softening with albums like 'Up' and 'Reveal,' R.E.M. seems to be toughening up again; on the strength of the first single, 'Discoverer,' the band's new record looks to continue with the same muscular rock and roll that defined its last album, 'Accelerate.'
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Liberals have to get more comfortable with dealing with the poor as they actually are. I admire their refusal to look down on the least among us, but at some level, that can become an excuse to never really look at the problem at all.
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Not everything happens when you expect it; it is what it is. The people who ride with you, ride with you.
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Women like men who listen. We have two ears and one mouth, so we should listen twice as much as we speak.
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I think the legacy is really the company that we built. That's what makes me happy. I'm a very simple person, so that's all I really need.
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People don't realize that now is all there ever is; there is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in your mind.
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I'm in a band. I have the basic idea, but when you surround yourself with really good players, why would I tell anyone what to play, because they're that good. They don't tell me what to play. They might encourage me, so that's what I do. I encourage them.
