Quotes About The Replacements

#1. We [The Replacements] formed as a rock and roll band, and that was the path we chose to take. Whenever we deviated from it we felt, unless everybody was into it, there was tension.

Paul Westerberg

#2. I didn't wake up one morning and not be in the Replacements. We're all that forever, and I've just grown older. I mean, I haven't lost anything. I've gained a few things.

Paul Westerberg

#3. He pulled the shade, climbed into bed, thought of the Replacements, a band from his hometown singing about needing a job and needing a girl. Rodney needed both. But he needed the job to get the girl. And he needed ambition to get either.

Steve Rushin

#4. Bands like R.E.M. and even The Replacements, during that initial wave of college rock, would sell 40, 50, 100,000 copies of a record, and that would be seen as extremely successful - and definitely enough to keep doing more.

Adam Schlesinger

#5. 'The Replacements' is where I met Jon Favreau, and we just clicked like, you know, like kids at a camp.

Faizon Love

#6. I think of the Replacements only when they're brought up to me. For two years, I'm at home, they don't really cross my mind. I still hear them on the radio. I'm not ashamed of anything we did.

Paul Westerberg

#7. Each album we [The Replacements] made was the one we were capable of making and wanted to make at the time. Each one was a progression or, depending on your opinion, a sidestep or tumble forward. I don't know what.

Paul Westerberg

#8. I listen back, and I hear what's there, and I know in my heart, in my gut, that we [The Replacements] were the real deal. No one can take that away. You can call us buffoons, or clowns or whatever. But when we wanted to, we were as good as anybody.

Paul Westerberg

#9. How can the Replacements be the best band of the 80s when I've never even heard of them?

Jon Bon Jovi

#10. Oil replacements and then efficiencies in engines and housing and the way we build houses is a very interesting market.

Vinod Khosla

#11. We need to stop using fossil fuels as soon as possible. Unfortunately, the two leading replacements of wind and solar have emerging health and environmental problems.

Steven Magee

#12. If king needs to be treated by psychiatrist,
then the people need replacements for both.

Toba Beta

#13. Adversity is a mirage. People, situations, and relationships sometimes change for the worst but inevitably clear a path for far better replacements. The continued journey will always find bliss.

Carl Henegan

#14. Kids shouting and skidding in the playground with no idea what future Hells awaited them: boring jobs and ruinous mortgages and bad marriages and hair loss and hip replacements and lonely cups of coffee in an empty house and a colostomy bag at the hospital.

Donna Tartt

#15. Broderick's unit shipped out to England as replacements for the 82nd Airborne men lost in the Normandy

Tom Brokaw

#16. That's the great thing about plankton. It pretty much keeps to itself.

Gene Hackman

#17. The part of Stripe that I've always found most interesting is the idea of facilitating new commerce that wouldn't otherwise happen. Payouts is turning out to be a big part of that. These new networks are efficient, intelligent replacements for offline behemoths.

Patrick Collison

#18. Philosophy is the replacement of category-habits by category-disciplines.

Gilbert Ryle

#19. Learning is the gradual replacement of fantasy with fact.

Gifford Pinchot

#20. Some references are more important than others. Like the metal stuff. Some people like Motley Crue and some people didn't listen to them at all. So that's why there's New Order and The New Replacements and David Bowie and Public Enemy.

Steve Pink

#21. It would be far easier to lose weight permanently if replacement parts weren't so handy in the refrigerator.

Hugh Allen

#22. The best way to find something you have lost is to buy a replacement.

Ann Landers

#23. The highest manifestation of true leadership is to identify one's replacement and to begin mentoring him or her.

Myles Munroe

#24. I feel great. I had a blood clot. It was a bad deal. But when I look at my friends with hip replacements, knee replacements, shoulder replacements, neck surgeries, back surgeries, I'll take the blood clot.

Ric Flair

#25. Moving on was going to require leaving the woods and getting a friend set that didn't have gray hairs, hip replacements and a few false teeth.

Rebecca Brooks

#26. One of the five new replacements went right on guard duty. He was hit in the neck within forty-five minutes. I don't know if he lived, but he never did come back. His war was pretty short.

- Don Bond

Marcus Brotherton

#27. Before then, life was like a jigsaw puzzle with all the pieces locked in place. Complete. Suddenly some were gone, and their replacements were ugly, jagged and awkward. Yet they were part of my life. I had to make them fit.

Susan O'Brien

#28. To abjure the notion of the truly human is to abjure the attempt to divinize the self as a replacement for a divinized world.

Richard Rorty

#29. Animal experimentation has been essential to the development of all cardiac surgery, transplantation surgery, joint replacements and all vaccinations.

Joseph Murray

#30. Younger adult smokers are the only source of replacement smokers If younger adults turn away from smoking, the industry must decline.

R. J. Reynolds

#31. The new heavens and the new earth are not replacements for the old ones; they are transfigurations of them. The redeemed order is not the created order forsaken; it is the created order - all of it - raised and glorified.

Robert Farrar Capon

#32. Greatness starts with the replacement of hatred with polite disdain.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#33. I'm suspicious of full-replacement programs - that is, pronouncements that one way of doing something will entirely supplant another, and that in fact we have to hurry the replacement along.

Nicholson Baker

#34. Each State has its own health insurance mandates, and some of them are good, but there are about 1,800 of them all across the Nation, including provisions for acupuncturists, massage therapists, and hair replacements.

Timothy Murphy

#35. There will be birthdays in the next twelve months; books keep well; they're easy to wrap: buy those books now. Buy replacements for any books looking raggedy on your shelves.

Roy Blount Jr.

#36. The army consists of the first infantry division and eight million replacements.

Sebastian Junger