Rick Nielsen Quotes

#1. If I weren't as tall as I am, I would've been a member of AC/DC.

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#2. When I do interviews, I always go in with the attitude that something good can happen from it.

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#3. Everything works if you let it

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#4. I'm in a band. I have the basic idea, but when you surround yourself with really good players, why would I tell anyone what to play, because they're that good. They don't tell me what to play. They might encourage me, so that's what I do. I encourage them.

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#5. The slavery of identity comes from our refusal to face ourselves. So we must begin the exploration to self-awareness. Where do we start?

Ruben Papian

#6. The worst thing your parents can do is try to emulate you.

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#7. I'm a reactor. I can react to crowds, performing situations.

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#8. I'm a guitar player. Actually, I think of myself as a songwriter/rhythm-guitar player.

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#9. Surrender, but don't give yourself away

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#10. I do not suppose that at any moment of history has the agony of the world been so great or widespread. Tonight the sun goes down on more suffering than ever before in the world.

Winston S. Churchill

#11. I'm quite an example. I have four kids, all from the same wife, all from the same husband.

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#12. Every person I've ever met always thinks their parents are weird.

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#13. In Hebrew, satan means an advocate of the alternative, the one who makes the arguments you don't know how to refute." Michelangelo looked to the old Jew, still grinning wickedly in the corner. "That satan is my best friend.

Adam Gidwitz

#14. When you're growing up you need your parents, but you don't want to be associated with them because you're trying to have your own life.

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#15. I actually did my research and tried to get kind of like a working visa for Australia. It always seemed like it was a land of opportunities. The same size as the United States with one-tenth of the population.

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#16. I prefer to be an equal-opportunity offender of the guitar.

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#17. If I weren't in the band, I would be a fan.

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#18. I always thought I wrote good bridges. I was a bit more impressed with the bridges I wrote than maybe the songs I wrote.

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#19. Did you ever wonder if the person in the puddle is real, and you're just a reflection of him?

Bill Watterson

#20. We can give our intelligence and law enforcement community the powers they need to track down and take out terrorists without undermining our commitment to the rule of law, or our basic rights and liberties.

Barack Obama

#21. Soundgarden and Metallica, The Ramones, Everclear ... I think they all wanted to see if we still knew how to play.

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#22. Madison Square Garden sounds like crap.

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#23. I'm a good solid family man. I don't say I'm a good solid man.

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