Cliff Burton Quotes
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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.
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Accomplish something every day of your life.
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Most of the good people of my generation... had offers to become editors, but the thought of going inside was just absolutely horrifying.
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I like big thinkers who, no matter how big their vision, can sit down and talk to me about hour-to-hour, day-to-day type stuff they do to move the ball forward.
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Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
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I wear tweed jackets and button-down shirts. I am a 1955 graduate of Harvard University who drives a 1968 Mercedes.
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And you can't complain about kissing Emma Watson. Isn't that what everyone in the world wants to do? I've known Emma for a few years. She's this amazing capacity of young and vibrant and brilliant, but also a bright, intelligent old soul.
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I could have probably built a great career in management consulting, but one of the insights that I had early on is that just because you're good at something doesn't mean that you should continue to do it. Somewhere in my heart of hearts I knew it wasn't what I wanted to do.
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Unfortunately, if you don't want to be in the spotlight, get out of it.
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I have never known stage-fright at any time.
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Brick-and-mortar at the end of the day matters because viral is great, but it comes and goes as fast.
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I'm not just a normal guy. I'm a gymnast.
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In previous generations, there was purpose; you had to die, but there was God, and literature and culture would go on. Now, there is no God, and our species is imminently doomed, so there is no purpose. We get up, raise families, have bank accounts, fix our teeth and everything else. But really, there is utterly no purpose except to be alive.
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The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out of his nose.
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I love a lot of things, and I'm pretty much obsessive about most things I do, whether it be gardening, or architecture, or music. I'd be an obsessive hairdresser.
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As long I still have a breath left in me I will dedicate myself fully to China's reform.
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I've personally reached the point where the sound of MP3s are so uncompelling, because so much is lost in translation.
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I love Madrid.
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When I was young, I had an 'aha' moment in church. There was a thing called testimony service, and somebody would sing a song, and everyone else would join in, finding a note where they fit. During one of those, a light went on in my head. In that moment, I heard everything - Parliament, the Staple Singers, Curtis Mayfield, Prince - in there.
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Certainly, friends are sufficiently rare not to be neglected; they are life's best comforters.
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My fans are like no other. Completely original people.
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I'm a big, big blues fan and the last several years I've really invested in the blues a lot, and I think my playing is getting better because of it - not necessarily better on a technical level, but certainly on a level of appropriateness.
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I'm a huge fan of women; I think we're great.
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We do what we want. We don't care what anyone else thinks.
