Johnny Rivers Quotes
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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.
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I don't even own a television. I don't watch network television.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.
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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.
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I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.
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Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.
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John D. Rockefeller wanted to dominate oil, but Microsoft wants it all, you name it: cable, media, banking, car dealerships.
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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.
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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.
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I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.
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We still need to be conscious of the fact that Russia has intercontinental ballistic missiles.
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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.
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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.
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There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.
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The third-down sacks are critical ones, 'cause that's getting off the field.
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I'm grateful to God that I'm able to praise his glory through my music.
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And the desire to own property, to take for ourselves things which in no way belong to us, does not stop short at the sun. The air is already bought and sold as a commodity, by health resorts. And what of water? Or waterpower? Why should the earth be parceled out into private hands? Is it any different from the sun? No; the earth belongs to the people who live on it. God intended it for them, but it has been taken over by private individuals. Privare means to steal. Thus private property is stolen property - property stolen from God and from humankind!
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Sunday morning church service is not an enormous priority; spending time with other believers is.
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There was a time in my life when I was travelling to football grounds five days a week. Combined with TV work and the hours spent driving to different venues as well as watching the game, it took up an enormous chunk of my life. But I'm getting older, and those days are long gone.
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People usually compare the computer to the head of the human being. I would say that hardware is the bone of the head, the skull. The semiconductor is the brain within the head. The software is the wisdom. And data is the knowledge.
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The first time I went to New York, I met Alan Freed.