Chad Smith Quotes
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Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.
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I tend to deal with characters who are sort of at that same point of wrestling with, 'Who am I going to be as an adult? What do I believe? How am I defining myself in the context of my culture and my peer groups, my family?'
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I get to travel, see the world, meet people and be independent. I feel blessed.
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I've always moved between media. Some ideas just work better in some media than others.
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That's when I feel really excited about a painting. When it starts to feel real, when it feels like it has a personality.
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So being two different people in one day unnerved me to no end.
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Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. Far the greatest things grow by God's law out of the smallest. But to live your life, you must discipline it.
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I have a shallow understanding of what it means to be alive, and I know certain things about parenting and being a wife and doing the school run. I know little bits, but I'm really a paddler on a beach.
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There is only one thing that a man really wants to do, all his life; and that is, to find his way to his God, his Morning Star, salute his fellow man, and enjoy the woman who has come the long way with him.
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Polka dots are fabulous.
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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.
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All I really had was my talent. Without that I wouldn't be welcome at the White House.
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People weren't even aware that I wrote my own songs. The media just promoted me as a female body. It's like I've had to prove that I'm an artist.
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Very few athletes get to experience a home Games, and I don't want to pass up the chance.
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Bebop and hip-hop, in so many ways, they're connected. A lot of rappers remind me so much of bebop guys in terms of improvisation, beats and rhymes. My dream is to see hip-hop incorporated in education. You've got the youth of the world in the palm of your hand.
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A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even... without any hope of doing it well.
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I don't have any stress. I'm very lucky. I live a very healthy life.
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It was a gift to get to play a gay role that was written in a three-dimensional, human way.
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Stubbornness is a positive quality of presidential leadership - if you're right about what you're stubborn about.
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My dad, being a businessman, constantly talked to me about carrying myself in a certain way and treating people with respect. And I think that's something that's carried over throughout my life. It's how I deal with certain situations.
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We need to focus on issues where we all agree, which is spending discipline and control and making sure that government, both in Springfield and in Washington, doesn't take more from your family budget.
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I'm a little more of a lead instrument in the Meatbats.
