"I didn't drive eleven hours across the state of Texas to watch my cholesterol."

-- Robb Walsh

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“Hendrix was the first person I had come across who seemed completely free, and when you're nine or 10, your life is entirely dominated by adults. So he represented this thing that I wanted to be. Hendrix was the first person who made me think it might be good to be a singer and a guitarist - before that I wanted to be a footballer.”
“We need truth to grow in the same way that we need vitamins, affection and love.”
“Being in the army is like being in the Boy Scouts, except that the Boy Scouts have adult supervision.”
“I worked for Sam Peckinpah on quite a bit of action in his films, and he got excited once in a while.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“When something tragic happens in the world and I realize that, for the most part, I am powerless to stop it.”
“Zalasiewicz is convinced that even a moderately competent stratigrapher will, at the distance of a hundred million years or so, be able to tell that something extraordinary happened at the moment in time that counts for us as today. This is the case even though a hundred million years from now, all that we consider to be the great works of manâ€”the sculptures and the libraries, the monuments and the museums, the cities and the factoriesâ€”will be compressed into a layer of sediment not much thicker than a cigarette paper.”

Source : Elizabeth Kolbert (2014). “The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History”, p.64, Bloomsbury Publishing
“It kind of irritates me that I'm seen as this pretty face. People also say I'm too thin. The truth is pretty people aren't as accepted as other people. It comes with all these stigmas.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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