Johnny Rivers Quotes

The first time I went to New York, I met Alan Freed.

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• I think why I was attracted to making something with Vice is that level of intimacy that you get as the viewer, getting to see some of that production element where we don't exactly know what we're doing, where we're going, or even if it's a good idea.

  

  Hailey Gates
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  • Why
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• I don't even own a television. I don't watch network television.

  

  Jack Falahee
  • Television
  • Own
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• My dad's a Jew, and my mom's a WASP, so that should pretty much say it all. It was a comically dysfunctional family.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Family
  • Pretty
  • Dad

• Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Respect
  • New
  • Greatest

• I think I may have failed at a lot of things, but the one thing I can say, and that I'm proud of, is that I am a good parent.

  

  Naveen Andrews
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• Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.

  

  J. G. Ballard
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• Some people think that if their opponent plays a beautiful game, it's okay to lose. I don't. You have to be merciless.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • People
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  • Game

• I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Believe
  • Freedom
  • Dreams

• Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
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  • Society
  • Simple

• John D. Rockefeller wanted to dominate oil, but Microsoft wants it all, you name it: cable, media, banking, car dealerships.

  

  Ralph Nader
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  • Name
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• I really believe musical form will go on. There's got to be a way of making musical form in cinema live again.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Believe
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• Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic book.

  

  Sam Raimi
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• I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.

  

  Jackie Chan
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• We still need to be conscious of the fact that Russia has intercontinental ballistic missiles.

  

  Rand Paul
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  • Russia

• As an Ambassador for PSI and a supporter of Nothing But Nets, I have met individuals around the world who are lending their ideas, their voices, and their time to improve their communities and the world at large. And there are millions more that I have not met.

  

  Mandy Moore
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• I have always loved music. My mom used to sing with my sister and I when I was younger, and I was in choirs and loved to perform, but when I was in college, I went on a study abroad to Trinidad, and while I was there, I sang backup at my first concert.

  

  Rachel Platten
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  • College
  • Mom

• There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Life
  • Black
  • Black-and-white

• The third-down sacks are critical ones, 'cause that's getting off the field.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Cause
  • Getting
  • Off

• There are several revenue streams that are near and present that could support a private space station, including in-space manufacturing, microgravity research, and tourism - for both individuals and sovereign nation astronauts - and in-space supply logistics.

  

  Dylan Taylor
  • Support
  • Space
  • Present

• When you're young, you don't have any experience - you're charged up, but you're out of control. And if you're old and you're not charged up, then all you have is memories. But if you're charged and stimulated by what's going on around you, and you also have experience, you know what to appreciate and what to pass by.

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
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• I do shows, stage shows all the time, and I'm so afraid that people are going to recognize themselves, and they never do. They never do. They're always like, 'Oh, that woman was ridiculous,' and yeah, they're talking about themselves.

  

  Jennifer Coolidge
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• I got to dress up in funny clothes and run around New Zealand with a bow and arrow for 18 months, how bad could that be?

  

  Orlando Bloom
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• To combat the growing devastation caused by the crimes associated with illegal immigration.

  

  Janet Napolitano
  • Crimes
  • Combat
  • Devastation

• The first time I went to New York, I met Alan Freed.

  

  Johnny Rivers
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