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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It can be difficult to be an introvert in church, especially if you happen to be the pastor. Liking to be alone can be interpreted as a judgment on other people's company. Liking to be quiet can be construed as aloofness. There is so much emphasis on community in most congregations that anyone who does not participate risks being labeled a loner.
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This case is not about whether marriages between same-sex couples are consistent or inconsistent with the teachings of a particular religion, whether such marriages are moral or immoral or whether they are something that should be encouraged or discouraged.... Quite simply, this case is about liberty and equality, the two cornerstones of the rights protected by the United States Constitution.
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As far as our fans are concerned, I'm the only one who counts; along with my teammates, obviously.
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I'm not a fan almost anywhere of announcing to the enemy of what I'm going to do.
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We do what we want. We don't care what anyone else thinks.
