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Me Quotes
Quotes rooted in the first person.
These are quotes centered on 'me' - childhood memories tied to family traditions, like a grandfather's holiday reading passed down for decades, alongside admissions about how humor can double as self-protection. Several speak to the solitary nature of creative work, something also explored in Life Quotes.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't start skiing until I was 50. My wife Lois taught me how to ski. I'm proficiently conservative.
- Moon
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any observations from the Moon or a sense of realising this or that about the greater meaning of things wasn't as influential for me as the experience of coming back and dealing with being a person who's been to the Moon.
- Fly
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- Nov 07, 2020
Maybe it was the challenge of flight, the opportunity to fly, the competition of summer camp and the inspiration and discipline of West Point. I think all of those things helped me to develop a dedication and inspired me to get ahead.
- Disappointment
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first biography written in '73 was not 'Journey To The Moon.' It was 'Return To Earth.' Because for me, that was the more difficult task - disappointment.
- Genius
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- Nov 07, 2020
Charlie Parker and Art Tatum to me were genius, and I'm right below that. I did, in my own way, do something different on the instrument, and that's the way I'd like to be remembered.
- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020
You want to know what makes me tick, I'll tell you what makes me tick. I was a boy growing up in Brooklyn; I read a two-penny magazine called 'The Hawk's Nest.' Nobody entered that nest that didn't leave a little richer and a little wiser. And that 11-year-old boy said, 'Isn't that a wonderful thing.' And that's all there is to it.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I found out that if you made people laugh, they like you. Most people got to like me because I made them laugh. When they didn't, I hit them.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd been doing the Chicago theatre thing for years. The money was kinda good - thanks to a push by my old pal Capone, who, let's say, persuaded theatre owners to book me.
- Get
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- Nov 07, 2020
Obviously, it was a dream to get signed by WWE, and that, by itself, was huge for me.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just looked in to stuff to do to keep me occupied. Alright, I'm gonna start dieting. I'm gonna start working out more. So then I started to lose weight, and then I started to see some results, and I started to drop some weight.
- Influence
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- Nov 07, 2020
I consider every drummer that ever played before me an influence, in every way.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think at one time every drummer wanted to play like Krupa or wanted to win a Gene Krupa drum contest. This is the big inspiration for drummers and naturally it has to be the same way for me.
- Dinner
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- Nov 07, 2020
My kids are always in the kitchen with me - I bring them to the bakery and let them decorate cakes, and they also try to help me and my wife, Lisa, cook dinner at night.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would never talk bad about anybody, even if they have something derogatory to say about me. I'm the bigger person.
- Good Life
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- Nov 07, 2020