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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Hate is a very strong and heavy emotion, probably as strong as love. I don't think I can live with hatred. If something bad happens, you feel bad about it; you forgive and move on. There's no hatred.
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We can look, but we'd better not touch.
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And any man who knows a thing, knows he knows not a damn, damn thing at all...
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People come into public life for different reasons. None of us are ego-challenged, I think, or we probably wouldn't be doing what we're doing, so if anyone tells you that they don't like the sound of the applause and the ego gratification, I don't think they're being straight with you.
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We do what we want. We don't care what anyone else thinks.
