Chad Smith Quotes
I just try to approach and serve the music in the way that I think is right for the band I'm in at the time.
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Since I started playing at the Olympics in 2000, I have always wanted to do a dress based on Wonder Woman. It should be interesting to wear. And hopefully, it will get me a gold medal.
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I've often thought the Bible should have a disclaimer in the front saying, 'This is fiction.'
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No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.
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I say I haven't lost my religion. I've lost my ideology.
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Every character I've ever played, I always try to take him right to the edge and not allow him to fall over, but directors have a tendency to pull me back a little bit.
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I hope to instill, in every child I meet, my love and enthusiasm for reading and stories.
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I was born technically in D.C., and then my family moved to the Columbia area when I was in elementary school. It was right on the line between Clarksville and Columbia in Howard County. I remember it being just like a peaceful, safe atmosphere. I always felt connected to the woods and that whole suburban feel.
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The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.
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I know that there are many things I could do, but I'm not interested. It's more important to be loving and to have a lively mind.
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I've been grateful that 'Time's' reach and mandate is so broad; anything you're interested in, you can usually write about.
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Once you've built the big machinery of political power, remember you won't always be the one to run it.
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Together, we can create a world in which peace is real; in which every human being can thrive; in which all share the promise of our century. I believe we can succeed.
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Among the rednecks of America, which there are many more than people seem to realize, it was terribly damaging. I got blamed for O.J.'s acquittal.
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In 2010, the Spanish constitutional court annulled a large part of the Catalan statute of autonomy negotiated between Catalonia and the previous prime minister, Jose Luis Zapatero. This demolished one of the main agreements achieved during the Spanish transition to democracy - Catalonia's recovery of self-governance.
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What musicals need is a new me.
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People stopped me on the street and said 'I can't live up to you.' Of course, they're referring to June Cleaver.
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Domestic goddesses have infiltrated everybody's lives and raised the bar way too high.
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There are people who consider it almost unpatriotic to be inquisitive and to be truthful about your opinions.
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If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.
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My very first professional writing credit was on a movie called The Dunwich Horror, and Roger Corman was the executive producer.
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I no fight for the money because I work hard for UFC for long time. I have money for my family. But I fight because I love it.
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I used to say things like, 'My name's not Al (Bundy), you know?' Not to the press, but to fans. 'My name is actually Ed.' I'd find myself saying that, and I'd think, 'Who do you think they think you are? They only know you from that!' And finally I just got...I don't know, I guess a switch went on for me, and I realized, 'This was the greatest job that you've ever had in your life. Why are you acting like an asshole?' So from that minute on, I kind of...well, I hate the word 'embraced,' but I just kind of went, 'Yeah, okay.' 'So you're Al, right?' 'Yep!'
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When we stop trying to control events, they fall into a natural order, an order that works. We're at rest while a power much greater than our own takes over, and it does a much better job than we could have done. We learn to trust that the power that holds galaxies together can handle the circumstances of our relatively little lives.
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I just try to approach and serve the music in the way that I think is right for the band I'm in at the time.
