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One that really caught me was Joe Morello. He was the first drummer I ever saw that could do a roll with one hand. He would turn his hand over and use his fingertips to get the stick bouncing. He could sit there with his right hand doing stuff on the cymbals and tom-toms while he was doing a roll with his left on the snare drum.
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One thing I always make - and I'm sure this is partly to do with memory and yearning and because I've made it ever since my children were born - I make gingerbread every year. And it's partly just the perfume of the spices in the house, makes it smell like winter to me.
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One thing I love to do is produce. I've produced a couple of bands. I mean, nothing ever really happened with 'em, but I enjoy getting a young band into the studio and guiding them, and making them feel at ease.
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Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.
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Only morons would ever think of themselves as intellectuals. That's why they all look so sad.
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Only people who look dull ever get into the House of Commons, and only people who are dull ever succeed there.
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Our country is where ever we are well off.
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Our favorite teams bring people together, keep family members close, bond people from different generations. Some of the happiest moments of my life involve something that happened with one of my teams. Some of the best relationships I ever had were with Boston athletes that I never even met.
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Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw.
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Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them.
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Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.
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Our policy for the last many years has been to deter the Chinese government in Beijing from ever coming into the position where they thought they had enough leverage over the U.S. to cross the Straits of Taiwan.
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Our structure has always been two homes, and that's all my son has ever known. So you balance it. Make sure you have good support with your family and friends and nannies.
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Parentage is a very important profession; but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of children.
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Peace hath higher tests of manhood than battle ever knew.
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People are tried and convicted in the newspapers and on television before they ever see a courtroom.
Assata: An Autobiography (1987) -
Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?
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Perhaps no mightier conflict of mind occurs ever again in a lifetime than that first decision to unseat one's own tooth.
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Perhaps nobody ever accomplishes all that he feels lies in him to do; but nearly every one who tries his power touches the walls of his being.
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Pessimism is reactionary because it makes the very idea of improving the world impossible.
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