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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I don't have cable. I just never watched a lot of TV.
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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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There are two things that are important in politics. The first is money and I can’t remember what the second one is.
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An abusive cop does not equal a bigoted police department.
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You really have to love every single bit of what you do. The moment that you do something that makes you feel queasy to your stomach, the company dies.
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If you want to learn about a culture, you look at what buildings the people lived in but you also want to know about their cosmos.
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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.
