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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If anyone saw Fall Out Boy's first 400 shows, we were the worst band of all time.
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Really, I am entirely material driven. If a project appeals to me, I will try to find the right writer and director. And that may be someone I've worked with before, or it may not. It may be a woman, or it may not.
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Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them.
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Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That's the soul of a country.
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The first time I went to New York, I met Alan Freed.
