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Generally, you are held to a sound and that becomes your sound. That gets branded as your sound, and all the copycats start with it because the labels are looking for that sound.

Quote by Randy Bachman about prison, contentment

To add an AC outlet, for example, you just drill a circular hole in the wall, tap into the wiring, add the outlet and you're set. If you don't want it, pull it out and plaster over it with more earth to seal the hole.

Quote by Randy Bachman about example, earth, contentment

When you get successful, you can do pretty much whatever you want.

Quote by Randy Bachman about contentment

When you play all that as a body of work there are four great songs, four mediocre songs and four bad songs. I didn't know it at the time; I was just doing my best.

Quote by Randy Bachman about body, bad luck, bad, work, time, contentment

You are still lucky - you have a certain type of people who keep buying your music - but then you can get typecast and have to keep making that same music, and you can change only slightly. It's risky to bounce around and change your type of music.

Quote by Randy Bachman about music, change, contentment, people

You don't need a uniform color: We used a mixture of brick red, browns and grays, and then threw in seashells, branches and various types of rock, so our walls ended up looking like cave paintings!

Quote by Randy Bachman about rocks, need, contentment

You take all the things that frighten you, and when you can get them to work for you all of sudden people are calling you a success.

Quote by Randy Bachman about contentment, success, work, things, people

And over time, I think, as Iraqi security capacity builds, you'll see American and coalition presence there decline.

Quote by John Abizaid about decline, security, americans, time, contentment

Being on the run, having to change the way that you do business, being unable to plan in a safe and secure environment, always looking over your shoulder, knowing that some day somebody's going to knock on your door and it's going to be your last.

Quote by John Abizaid about being, change, affair, day, contentment

But all that having been said, you can't, in a city of a million people like Karbala, or 5 million like Baghdad, you can't be in all places at all times.

Quote by John Abizaid about city, contentment, people

I think you also understand that one of the key things that's got to be done in Iraq is to build a mentality of understanding that the military needs to be subordinate to civilian control and respectful of its own people.

Quote by John Abizaid about mentality, army, things, people, contentment

I think you will see a lot of strains develop in the political process that will result in violence everywhere in the country - but it's controllable, it's workable and it will lead to a much better future for these people.

Quote by John Abizaid about violence, future, country, people, contentment

In other words, for every 10 enemy you kill you bring on 20 new recruits to their anti-coalition cause then essentially you are working against yourself.

Quote by John Abizaid about enemies, word, contentment

Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.

Quote by Francis Bacon about wealth, stores, fall, contentment

Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.

Quote by Francis Bacon about fame, contentment, fire, fire brigade, good, good luck

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

Quote by Francis Bacon about end, man

You know as well as I do that counterinsurgency is a very nuanced type of military operation.

Quote by John Abizaid about army, contentment

All the stuff that you visualized that was going to work so beautifully, you discover is trashed, so you jump to something else.

Quote by F. Murray Abraham about contentment, work

Arnold Schwarzenegger, I don't know if you'd call him a great actor, but he's amazing in terms of his presence, and he is interesting enough that you want to watch him.

Quote by F. Murray Abraham about actors, contentment

If you can't use what's at hand, you might as well go into another business!

Quote by F. Murray Abraham about affair, use, contentment