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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I ain't scared to do another dating show, but I ain't really trying to. I want to do a talk show or something. I've done enough dating on television. I'm ready to spread my wings, and go down other avenues.
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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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'Blood Meridian' was without question the novel that made me want to become a writer.
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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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Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach.
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I miss the simplicity of college, with specific due dates, a consistent schedule, and a solid routine.
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I've seen a big shift, especially in my classroom, with women standing up and demanding respect. That's in every woman, whether 16, 26, 56.
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We certainly do not forget you as soon as you forget us. It is, perhaps, our fate rather than our merit. We cannot help ourselves. We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us. You are forced on exertion. You have always a profession, pursuits, business of some sort or other, to take you back into the world immediately, and continual occupation and change soon weaken impressions.
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Preschoolers have a way of grabbing your attention. Mine help me not to be a baseball player at home.
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When you're on the subway in New York, people literally could be 11-inches away from you, and you can't just stare at them.
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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.
