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“Drummers shouldn't just think of themselves as drummers. If you're going to be a musician, you should expand your horizons, compose things, and work with other instruments.”

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Stewart Copeland

Stewart Copeland, born July 16, 1952, in Alexandria, Virginia, is an American drummer, composer, and music producer best known as the founding drummer of the legendary rock band The Police. Renowned for his unique drumming style that blends rock, jazz, and reggae influences, Copeland has also achieved significant success as a film and television composer, creating scores for over 50 films including "The Matrix" and "Rumble in the Bronx." His innovative percussion techniques have influenced generations of drummers worldwide. more

“To me, the most important tool is not a physical or a technical one. It's more of a cerebral one. It's your brain. It's about having an interest in experimenting musically, perhaps touching on several different genres of music. No doubt, the most important tool is the mind. It's the willingness to experiment freely.”

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Author:Mike Portnoy

“Now, have I ever been tempted to break into a Krispy Kreme doughnut store in the middle of the night? Oh, yeah. God help us if I had a mini-bar stocked with cheesecake and chicken-fried steak.”

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Author:Mike Huckabee

“I don't think you should go around talking trash about people because I think that's how you get your hat handed to you.”

People Thinking Should Talking Hats Trash

Author:LL Cool J

“A passionately lived life is not always comfortable. Going for it involves being open to all of life - the joys, the sorrows, the mundane as well and the magic, the splendid victories, the most abject defeats. You might even stop closing your eyes during the scary parts of the movie.”

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Author:Nicholas Lore

“The secret to perseverance is a simple one: have a bigger commitment to getting the job done than to attempting to control your inner feelings and sensations.”

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Author:Nicholas Lore

“The secret of creating anything new in your life consists of creating new commitments and then holding the tiller to your new course until it becomes established as a behavior.”

Courses Secret Behavior Creating Commitment

Book:The Pathfinder: How to Choose Or Change Your Career for a Lifetime of Satisfaction and Success

Source: The Pathfinder: How to Choose Or Change Your Career for a Lifetime of Satisfaction and Success

“If youth only knew, if age only could.”

Ifs Age Youth

Author:Samuel Ullman

“Foreign policy isn't something that is great and big, it's common sense and humanity as it applies to my affairs and yours.”

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Author:Ernest Bevin

“The interests of the States... ought to be made joint in every possible instance in order to cultivate the idea of our being one nation, and to multiply the instances in which the people shall look up to Congress as their head.”

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Book:The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private : published by the order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the original manuscripts, deposited in the Department of State

Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private : published by the order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the original manuscripts, deposited in the Department of State

“By [the] operations [of public improvement] new channels of communication will be opened between the States; the lines of separation will disappear, their interests will be identified, and their union cemented by new and indissoluble ties.”

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Book:The writings of Thomas Jefferson

Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson

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