Tony Iommi Quotes
I hated school. After 15, you went off to college if you were good enough. It didn't appeal to me so I left school. I did what everybody did - get a job.
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There's nothing more interesting than the landscape of the human face.
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I think the next set of media companies are going to be created on the web and that YouTube is going to be a big part of that.
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Japanese people are not known for expressing their feelings through singing and dancing, but I like to sing a lot. I don't just sing to myself in the shower. I sing everywhere.
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We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.
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Our Nation must provide sufficient access to healthcare, adequate benefits, and the supplemental resources our veterans were promised and so dearly need. We owe our heroes no less.
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When I was a child - in wartime, pre-television - books were my life.
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We are like petri dishes, where we can innovate, but we want to do it carefully and thoughtfully.
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I make a lot of money, but I don't want to talk about that.
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Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was talks of jihad and of resisting the American occupiers, and slowly this turned into an organized movement.
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I don't have to go to the weight room. I don't have to go work out if I don't want to.
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If I wasn't in fashion, I would have been a psychiatrist.
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If you believe that your thoughts originate inside your brain, do you also believe that television shows are made inside your television set?
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I love meeting interesting people and doing things with them.
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The lions taught me photography. They taught me patience and the sense of beauty, a beauty that penetrates you.
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A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.
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It's always good to be known. You want to build your brand up, want to build your name.
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The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.
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I'm not really a fan of people who think they're better than others. There's no reason to act that way. I couldn't even stand to yell at someone if they bumped right into me.
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The capacity to reason is a special sort of capacity because it can lead us to places that we did not expect to go.
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As a kid, I really did want to hang out with the grownups, so it was hanging out with the hippest grownups in the world. This was the nicest bunch of people I've worked with in show business, with the exception of the people around 'A Mighty Wind.' It really was a wonderful eight years.
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From a social point of view, it's beneficial that homeownership encourages commitment to a given town or city. But, from an economic point of view, it's good for people to be able to leave places where there's less work and move to places where there's more.
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I get hired to hack into computers now and sometimes it's actually easier than it was years ago.
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I was raised with the idea that the arts were a doss - but the arts are vital. If you see Mark Rylance perform Shakespeare at the Globe, you know it's a spiritual act.
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I hated school. After 15, you went off to college if you were good enough. It didn't appeal to me so I left school. I did what everybody did - get a job.
