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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We have as many audiences as we have phases of our career. And all of us are older now. We've grown in different directions, so that the result is a band that's sometimes a little scattered -- just like it was with the original version of the band, really. ... All Chicago albums are stylistically all over the map, and that's a good thing. We can play to anyone.
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Haiti is my country. The same way the Beatles are received in England - that's how Wyclef Jean is received in Haiti, do you know what I mean?
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The Future, like a fruitfuller Summer, sits Ripening her Eden silently.
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I don't take story input from fans.
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We do what we want. We don't care what anyone else thinks.
