Chad Smith Quotes
I just played at a club in L.A. called the Baked Potato. It fits like 90 people. It's like playing somewhere in a basement in, like, Indiana or somewhere where all your friends show up. It's really fun and there's a very different energy to that than to play to 50,000 at a Tokyo baseball stadium.
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The correlation of quality of life and cost of energy is huge.
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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I want to go into science class and awaken that spark that makes learning possible.
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I've never experienced chronic pain myself, but I have known many people over the years who have.
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If somebody told me you'd be a one and a half billion dollar company and be the largest in the world, I wouldn't have believed it myself.
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It is good to be in front of the lens to appreciate more being behind the lens.
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When you read about the best places to work, it's never about salary; it's about catered lunches, the daycare - it's the cool stuff that matters.
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Coming up with ideas isn't hard. The real challenge is finding the time to actually build something and then finding a home for it.
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This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.
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Babies are smart. They can tell the difference between a responsive face and a blank face, wiped clean of emotion.
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Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.
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A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I'm writing about New York.
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I was a curious child. I'd debate with anyone who came to the door - people from the Islamic community... Jehovah's Witnesses... anyone.
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If we don't enforce visa laws, we basically have open borders.
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My father... removed from Kentucky to... Indiana, in my eighth year... It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up... Of course when I came of age, I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher... but that was all.
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I'm working on bringing the instant film camera back as part of the future.
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A wise human would have an understanding of the supply chain and how the pieces fit together. But it's against our nature to think about it.
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I learned early in my career to not let myself get in the way of humor but, instead, find what is great in a talented person.
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There's Catholic guilt about things, then there's the guilt of being the youngest of 10, so when nice things happen to you, you're not really allowed to enjoy them.
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Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that's what the music is about.
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My dad has spent 20 years of his life working in child protection and writing policy for organisations across Australia in order to recognise and safeguard against abuse.
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Undeniably, I'm a country singer; I'm a country songwriter. But I feel like I make country music for people who like country music and for people who don't.
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...with like-minded people one cannot discuss. With like-minded people one can only participate in a church service, and, as is widely known, I do not like church services.
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I just played at a club in L.A. called the Baked Potato. It fits like 90 people. It's like playing somewhere in a basement in, like, Indiana or somewhere where all your friends show up. It's really fun and there's a very different energy to that than to play to 50,000 at a Tokyo baseball stadium.
