Cliff Burton Quotes
You don't burn out from going too fast. You burn out from going too slow and getting bored.
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I ended the war a horse ahead.
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My look is either very baroque or very Zen - everything in between makes me itch.
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We all, as engineers, doctors, have a big responsibility to bring smiles on the faces of suffering humanity.
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To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else.
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Ask your agent to set up a meeting with either your editor or the marketing department of the house or both so you can find out what they're doing, what they aren't, and what you can do to help.
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When you're doing a deal with someone in the southern Sahara, it's a very different way of doing business than in London. You can't sign them in the usual way because they'd end up getting ripped off, which would defeat the object of setting up a label like this.
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Growing up, I was always in normal public school which is very important in my eyes.
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In life, so many things are taken for granted, but one thing I can honestly say is that I took every day, enjoyed the game of putting on that uniform and playing the great game of baseball.
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I'm amused when Congress tries to place the blame on somebody but never themselves. I've never heard any of them ever say, 'I've made a mistake.' I do. I say I called it wrong. But they just try to find somebody to blame.
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There are times when what's happening in rock is the best music in the world, and there are times when there is nothing worthwhile at all.
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Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.
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Equality in education is my number one battle.
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One side of me is very busy paying attention to the details of life, the humanity of people, catching the street voices, the middle-class, upper-middle-class secret lives of Turks. The other side is interested in history and class and gender, trying to get all of society in a very realistic way.
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A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.
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I'm very grateful to God for what he gives me. Victories, remarkable victories, but you have to go through the defeats. That is why I praise God for everything.
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Really important books to me are the classics. I try very hard to read them well - you know, especially once I got serious about writing. So, reading Tolstoy several times - 'War and Peace,' 'The Kreutzer Sonata' - all those were really important to me.
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You can't come out on a record dissing the system and be on a label that's connected to the system.
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I'm not quite as cool as I would like to be, really.
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The thing about stand-ups is you can't really get good unless you're failing in front of a large number of people. That makes stand-up comedy unique: you need a tremendous amount of reserve within you to take the rejection from the audience, and without it, you can't do anything.
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The trick to being a good actor is getting so involved in your character that the camera disappears, the 50 bored guys eating doughnuts disappear, friends disappear. To get to that point when you don't have to think about it, you're just acting and reacting in those circumstances.
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The person that was closest to me growing up was my sister, who died at 19. She was an incredibly powerful girl, deeply committed to art and literature.
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If I observe my cats carefully, it is partly because I observe everyone I deal with as carefully as I can and partly because they amuse and entertain me. They are an important part of the fabric of my daily life.
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We'd go to the fraternity house. It was a good place to practice. But we really wanted the kids to overhear us. And whoever heard us would go nuts over it.
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You don't burn out from going too fast. You burn out from going too slow and getting bored.
