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" If you really want to annoy me, ask me when I'm going to retire from rock n' roll. "

Bruce Dickinson

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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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" I think the best way to find out about something is to try to do it to the max. A lot of people take up a hobby or sport and then find an excuse not to carry on with it. Once I start something, I won't stop until I'm as good at it as I'll ever be. "

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" South Wales is a hub of aviation. "

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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 not going to do any more solo touring. "

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" My son is in a band, and he's a singer, and his vocals... they're screaming-growling stuff... and he's got a pretty reasonable voice. Yet he practices really hard to get the screaming-growling thing without losing that voice every five minutes. So I'm, like, 'Hats off to you.' "

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" Engineering stimulates the mind. Kids get bored easily. They have got to get out and get their hands dirty: make things, dismantle things, fix things. When the schools can offer that, you'll have an engineer for life. "

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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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" Everything you need to know about Iron Maiden is onstage. "

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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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" 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! "

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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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" Apart from death and taxes, the one thing that's certain in this life is that I'll never be a fashion icon. "

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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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" I'm very good at daydreaming. Ask any of my schoolteachers. "

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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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