Bret Michaels Quotes

#1. 'Rock of Love' with Bret Michaels was fun. He's a lovable guy.

Kristen Schaal

#2. Bret Michaels and Dee Snider and I know how to step on a stage and front a band, and we're not ashamed to. We're not shoe gazers.

Sebastian Bach

#3. I no longer have the terrible nightmares that I used to have. Mao had just died in 1976, and China began to open up. For the first time scholarships to go to the West to study were awarded on academic merit.

Jung Chang

#4. I'm not the new kid on the block anymore. Writers always use the phrase "aging rocker," and I'm like, "What other option do I have?" You're either aging or you're dead.

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#5. I've had plenty of big hits and plenty of big misses.

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#6. A brain hemorrhage puts it all in a deeper perspective. I'm one of those guys hit by lightning. I see the big picture. Everything is in perspective now. Let's just say I'm the kind of guy who knows how to enjoy the moment.

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#7. Thoroughly read all your contracts. I really mean thoroughly.

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#8. It is easier to achieve a desired result in short pieces.

Gustav Mahler

#9. While the memory of guilt is far from pleasant (like 'wormwood and gall'), it has the curative intent of restoring us into an awareness of the constancy of God's love, new every morning. God's mercy is not spent even with our worst misdeeds.

Thomas C. Oden

#10. I'm the wrong kind of person to be really big and famous.

Elliott Smith

#11. The secret to #success lies in the gap between dream and reality.

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#12. [My hair] creates this Tarzanesque, likeable bad-boy image. It says, 'I am a wild child. I will take you on a Harley ride, then make passionate love to you. And should you be attacked by a lion or an idiot at a bar, I will protect you.'

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#13. Any band that is out there chasing it is doing more destruction to music then someone who is out there playing what they truly feel.

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#14. Technology has become a force of nature. We can't control it. It comes blowing over the planet and there's nowhere for us to hide.

Don DeLillo

#15. I do meet-and-greets at every show and meet a minimum of 20-35 fans at each.

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#16. My life is part humor, part roses, part thorns.

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#17. As far back as I can remember, I am one of those guys that works hard and plays harder. I have to have both.

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#18. Most bands have a two-year success rate. By the third year, it's sort of over. Here we are in Poison still together 26 years later.

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#19. Opposites can attract, as in magnetism. Or explode, as in matter and antimatter.

Peter David

#20. Everyone wants to go to the party and the red carpet, but my life is 90% the work.

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#21. For me as a solo artist, I never want to be a nostalgia act.

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#22. My job has always been to not only make my character look like a badass but to also make the actor I am fighting opposite to be the character they need to be too.

Zoe Bell

#23. I am truly independently owned and operated.

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#24. All top salespeople have a highly evolved will all top leaders have a highly evolved will you see it's the will that gives us the ability to focus

Bob Proctor

#25. Bisexuals need to recognize that their being closeted is a huge contributing factor to the hostility they face.

Dan Savage

#26. I'm addicted to creating and writing.

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#27. I don't want to be a reality retro star.

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#28. You want to go to a summer concert and not watch a band staring at its shoes for six hours and complaining.

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#29. There are so many low points with stand-up. You are perpetually humiliated, so it doesn't really matter anymore. I don't have any dignity left to lose. An audience can't hurt you anymore when you've been completely dismantled.

John Oliver

#30. I always think in life passion supersedes everything.

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#31. Reader, if you would joy in Christ's glory hereafter, He must be glorious in your sight now. Is He so?

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#32. I love it. It's all good to me. Whether I'm performing in New York, L.A., Columbus or Des Moines, I give 110 percent every night.

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#33. All my life, I've been a type 1 diabetic. I've always taken life day by day.

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#34. There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and mad at the pitcher.

Ted Williams

#35. Sometimes I will endanger my own life to pleasure a woman.

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#36. The bottom line is that TV can either be a great asset to your career, or if you're a complete ass that people hate, it can be the final nail in your coffin.

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