"I think a guy who's had just the right amount of booze can sing the blues a hell of a lot better than a guy who is stone sober."
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"I'm an armchair kind of guy, especially when it's raining, which it always is and always will be."
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"I've learned I don't like being around people too much. It's hard to stand around and make conversation with people I've learned. But I do want to be the guy that can do it easily."
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"A rebounder, or a shot-blocker for that matter, is always at a disadvantage if he tells himself the only way he can succeed is by out jumping the guy next to him. Sometimes he will have to, but most of the time he will not. Most of my rebounds came from positioning, where I was able to get the ball while in heavy traffic."
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"Guys are lucky: We can wear a suit over and over, just with different shirts and ties."
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"A typical guy who buys organic food doesn't really buy it in order to be healthy; he buys it to regain a kind of solidarity as the one who really cares about nature. He buys a certain ideological stance."
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"My chops were not as fast... [but] I just learned more on what was in my mind than what was in my chops. I learned a long time ago that one note can go a long way if it's the right one, and it will probably whip the guy with twenty notes"
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"You know he can’t save you, right? In the real world? That guy, right there."
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"The guy you see on the screen isn’t really me. I’m Duke Morrison, and I never was and never will be a film personality like JOHN WAYNE . I know him well. I’m one of his closest students. I have to be. I made a living out of him."
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"The Beatles were just four guys that loved each other. That's all they'll ever be."
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"I'm a big root beer guy."
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"When you're...stepping over a guy on the sidewalk...does it ever occur to you to think, 'Wow. Maybe our system doesn't work?'"
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"My model for business is The Beatles. They were four guys who kept each other kind of negative tendencies in check. They balanced each other and the total was greater than the sum of the parts. That's how I see business: great things in business are never done by one person, they're done by a team of people."
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"What's swinging in words? If a guy makes you pat your foot and if you feel it down your back, you don't have to ask anybody if that's good music or not. You can always feel it."
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"Open books, not legs. Blow minds, not guys"
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"There is a limit to the success of conservative populism and the exploitation of "little guy" or "silent majority" rhetoric, and it is very often reached because of the emaciated, corrupted personalities of the demagogues themselves."
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"In a time where everything's a flavor of the month, and it's hard to have any sort of longevity, I've been able to sell records still. I want to be the guy that stands out there and says thank you personally to everyone. And I try after my shows and kick it because I want to genuinely say thanks."
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"There have been a lotta tough guys. There have been pretenders. And there have been contenders. But there is only one king."
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"The guys who won World War II and that whole generation have disappeared, and now we have a bunch of teenage twits."
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"The puppet on the right shares my beliefs, the puppet on the left is more to my liking. Hey...there's one guy holding up both!"
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