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I don't like being recognised, I have no interest in being famous at all, I just do what I do. If I could be like Captain Kirk and beam myself up and then beam myself down, I would!

Bruce Dickinson

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Bruce Dickinson
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: August 7
Aircraft Pilot
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Heavy Metal Singer
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Rock Musician
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My dad always told me, 'I don't care what you do. Just aim to be the best at it. Even if it's the world's best window cleaner.'
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If it all just happens like this for the rest of my life, it's going to be one endless Groundhog Day. I determined that I was not prepared to submit to this regime, so I thought I had to do something about it.
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Business is just about enabling human beings, nothing more, nothing less. Businesses need to recognize this fundamental fact.
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The joke in aviation is, 'If you want to make a million, you'd better start with £10m.'
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I'm very good at daydreaming. Ask any of my schoolteachers.
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One of my earliest ventures was when I was nine years old. I realized there was a shortage of pencils at school, so I started Rent-a-Pencil. But I made a fundamental mistake. Everybody stole my pencils.
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Life on the road can get a little one-dimensional. I didn't want to reach 40 and have to say all I'd done was look out the window of a tour bus and get drunk.
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It was like finding some weird tribe in the middle of the jungle and, you know, they all come out and go: Fear of the Dark. Favorite Album. What?!?
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I'm not going to do any more solo touring.
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In my naïvety, I thought people who were in rock 'n' roll bands were great artists, and it was a huge shock to the system to realise that they weren't, that they didn't even aspire to be, really. Some of them did, maybe, but some of them, like Samson, were very frightened of the idea.
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I shall refract myself, yes, I shall no longer be known as the prism.
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Rock music should be gross: that's the fun of it. It gets up and drops its trousers.
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I've been to the Reading festival twice before-as a punter, though I stayed backstage in the hospitality tent!
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Best two rock voices I've heard in a last few years both have been from grunge bands: it's Eddie Vedder and the other one is Chris Cornell from Soundgarden.
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There are basically two categories of music: Metal and bullshit.
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Engineering stimulates the mind.
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If your only arbiter of anything is money, really you should... go and rob banks.
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If you really want to annoy me, ask me when I'm going to retire from rock n' roll.
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When you cut human beings down to size, we're really quite simple creatures food, shelter, warmth, light, heat and you build it up from there really until you finally go Gucci shoes or whatever it is or whatever your consumer desires are. All those desires are ultimately, they're about gratification.
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I find that fencing and training give me more stamina and help me deal with the craziness of being on the road so much.
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