"I guess it was the first time I really thought about leaving. I don't just mean Iron Maiden, I mean quitting music altogether. I just thought, 'Nothing is worth feeling like this for.' I began to feel like I was a piece of machinery, like I was part of the lighting rig."

-- Bruce Dickinson

#Mean Quotes #Iron Quotes #Leaving Quotes

“All the roles I play, I don't see any of my roles in films that they're typically leading men.”
“It wouldn't have occurred to me that while this old white man, which is to say me, was voting for Hillary Clinton, white women were choosing an overt misogynist [Donald Trump] over the first woman president. Someone will have to explain that one to me someday.”

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“Itâ€™s a hard thing to explain to somebody who hasnâ€™t felt it, but the presence of death and danger has a way of bringing you fully awake. It makes things vivid. When youâ€™re afraid, really afraid, you see things you never saw before, you pay attention to the world. You make close friends. You become part of a tribe and you share the same blood- you give it together, you take it together.”
“In Hollywood they usually cast me as villains or priests”
“If the race is to be freed from its crippling burden of good and evil it must be psychiatrists who take the original responsibility”
“Through systematic terror, through indoctrination, through systematic manipulation of stimulus, reward, and punishment, we can today break man and convert him into brute animal ... The first step toward survival is therefore to make government legitimate again by attempting to deprive it of these powers... by international action to ban such powers.”
“Goodwill is the mightiest practical force in the universe.”
“I was risking a very promising and lucrative future in the business world that I was all set up to receive. I stepped out completely on faith. But when I engaged with an audience for the first time, I was right at home. I felt safe, and all of my senses worked together with a certain elegance. I understood flow in the most profound way. I knew then that I had to follow my heart.”

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