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"In the beginning, though, I have to admit that I did have a chip on my shoulder. I did want to prove everyone wrong. But after I went through the process and came out the other side, it wasn't about anyone else."
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"There is a difference between twenty-nine and thirty. When you are twenty-nine it can be the beginning of everything. When you are thirty it can be the end of everything."
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"Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it's just the beginning."
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"To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness."
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"You cannot skip the beginning and hope to reach the end. You will fall as soon as you get there."
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"The difficult problems in life always start off being simple. Great affairs always start off being small."
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"The first stage of any development is infancy."
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"I do not read the ancient languages, but I am beginning to study Greek."
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"Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues."
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"Isn't that the way everything begins? A night, a love, a once and for all."
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"A rose started off a bud, a bird started off an egg, and a forest started off a seed."
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"In the beginning, though, I have to admit that I did have a chip on my shoulder. I did want to prove everyone wrong. But after I went through the process and came out the other side, it wasn't about anyone else."
Beginning
"I'll come in with a string of riffs and direct the musical ideas. But you still need a band and their input to make the ideas come alive. You can't underestimate band chemistry."
Ideas
"I'm definitely responsible for coming in with some basic chord changes, or ideas. Everybody in the band looks to me to come up with the basic seed, so it's not very productive to come in with nothing."
Ideas
"For someone who's had the level of success I've had, there's been very little critical review of my work, which is pretty fascinating."
Success
"James, that's a bad situation. I'm not saying it's not repairable, but it's pretty far. When you go from being in one of the best bands in the world to some cover band... as far as I'm concerned, he was playing down at the pub."
Being
"My pat line about the Cubs and payroll is that the amount of merchandise the Cubs would sell off a world series championship would more than cover for a big payroll."
World
"I lay a lot of blame at the feet of Dusty Baker for not being more strict about fundamentals, which I think would give the team a stronger day-to-day identity."
Being
"My version, of course, is not this flag-waving, let's all get on the Jesus train and ride out of hell. I'm not that kind of guy. It's an embrace that life is good, worth living and yeah, it's not easy, but there are more pluses than minuses."
Life
"I believe that if the Tribune company ever tries to close down Wrigley Field that you will have a protest from every corner of the globe."
Company
"I've always been spiritual but I've never had a proper context, and it took me awhile to find the proper context. It's hard to realize you can have any kind of relationship with God you want... and so I now have a punk rock relationship with God."
God
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