"The fact that my dad was never around gave me a lot of determination. It really set this fire full of fuel, so to speak. It didn't matter what anybody was telling me, how many times I got rejected, because it was never as bad as being rejected by your own father."

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Source : "Guns N' Roses DJ Ashba: On Overcoming Obstacles with a Guitar". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. January 27, 2015.

DJ Ashba

#Determination Quotes #Dad Quotes #Father Quotes

“It would be a lovely place if we didn't necessarily judge or jump to conclusions because someone wants to wear a dress or because someone wants to wear pants.”
“Cézanne made a cylinder out of a bottle. I start from the cylinder to create a special kind of individual object. I make a bottle a particular bottle out of a cylinder.”
“My first husband and I are still good friends and there is no earthly reason why I should not see him. Larry and I are very much in love.”
“What sort of world can we prepare for our great grandchildren?”
“People have no idea what one saint can do: for sanctity is stronger than the whole of hell.”
“I loved acting, I started as a child and it is interesting because I didn't compare myself to others that were doing the same thing. I just felt that I needed to stay focused and stay out of trouble.”
“Clang Clang Rattle Bing Bang, Gonna make my noise all day!”

Source : Robert Munsch (2012). “Mortimer: Read-Aloud Edition”, p.7, Open Road Media
“In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.”

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