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"Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great."

"Illinois then had no legislation providing compensation for accident or disease caused by occupation."

"The historian's job is to aggrandize, promoting accident to inevitability and innocuous circumstance to portent."

"What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven."

"Some directors expect you to do everything; write, be producer, psychiatrist. Some just want you to die in a tragic accident during the shooting so they can get the insurance."
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"America feels like home as much as it does here. Although it's a strange situation as I feel almost like I'm in no-man's land some of the time, because although I'm a resident, I still can't vote so I don't really have a say in what goes on where I live."

"Just the same way I'd say a prayer before going onstage, taking that even further and using the drum to inspire people. And using that as a vehicle for the intention."

"But it's funny that now I'm in such a happy situation, I look more objectively at my own past and see what others have seen for a long time and I'm just so glad I've been able to get to this point."

"Chasing the sensation. Whether it was drugs or sex or whatever. Those things had become my main focus in life."

"'Cause I felt I didn't have anything else to prove as a musician... and boy was I wrong about that one."

"Some people say that practice makes perfect but I just feel that the repetition works against me and I start thinking too far ahead during a show."

"Yes, of course that's true but you know, the irony of all that is that before the accident, I'd pretty much lost interest in playing drums."
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