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Tom Scholz Quotes

I was basically a dork that hit the books and liked to build things and did all of the things that you weren't supposed to do to be popular. But somehow I ended up onstage, playing guitar in front of everybody else.

Tom Scholz

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: March 10, 1947

Topics

Guitar You Build Up Things Playing

In the 1980s, there was no category to stick me in. 'He sounds too smart' is what I was hearing. I realized that I had to become a member of the school of what I call 'ugly acting.' Which meant I wanted to do what Dustin Hoffman did very successfully: to play character roles, but lead character roles.

Joe Morton

Character School Smart Ugly Me Play

I think that all the anger and cynicism comes from suppressing things that we always wanted.

John Lee Hancock

Anger Think Always Cynicism Things

In housing in the fifties in Britain and the sixties, we pulled down the terraces - destroyed whole communities and replaced them with tower blocks and we built walkways that became rat-runs for muggers. That was the fashionable opinion. But it was wrong.

John Major

Opinion Down Wrong Sixties Housing

I'm not against a border wall, OK, but go to China, and you'll see a border wall there. We need technology, we need drones, we need surveillance capabilities, and we need rapid-reaction capabilities.

John McCain

Technology Border You Wall Go Need

Applause, it's very nice, of course. But when you're giving, and creating, and then there is the silence of everyone sitting there, listening, waiting, that is great.

Anna Netrebko

Great Silence Waiting Listening You

A friend of mine once told me that I can't screw up when I play my own music. I also take voice lessons, play other peoples' songs out of music books, and occasionally figure out how to play other people's music from records. This keeps my ears, fingers, and mind working.

Lisa Loeb

Friend Music People Mind Me Voice

Airbnb is a much more effective protest than shutting down the Brooklyn Bridge.

Jason Calacanis

Bridge Brooklyn Down More Protest

Each director maintains a different personality. Either you get along, or you don't.

Jason Statham

Personality You Director Different

The majority is still at the General's disposal.

Jared Sparks

Majority Still General Disposal

Women as mothers grapple with corresponding contradictions. The adoration they feel for their grown daughters, mixed with the sense of responsibility for their well-being, can be overwhelming, matched only by the hurt they feel when their attempts to help or just stay connected are rebuffed or even excoriated as criticism or devilish interference.

Deborah Tannen

Women Responsibility Hurt Criticism

No phone. No pool. No pets. No cigarettes. Ultimate freedom... No longer to be poisoned by civilization, he flees, and walks alone upon the land to become Lost in the Wild.

Christopher McCandless

Freedom Alone Phone Pool Lost Land

The 'Bourne' movies are great in their own ways; it introduces a whole other sort of allegory about the Bush years. The secrecy and the threats of a big global organization.

Chris Terrio

Great Organization Movies Own Big