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

  

  Jack Falahee
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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
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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.

  

  J. M. Roberts
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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.

  

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

  

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

  

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

  

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

  

  Dan Quinn
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• I think most people are afraid of what they don't know.

  

  Kevin Connolly
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• My work is about structure. It has never been a reaction to Abstract Expressionism. I saw the Abstract Expressionists for the first time in 1954. My line of influence has been the 'structure' of the things I liked: French Romanesque architecture, Byzantine, Egyptian and Oriental art, Van Gogh, Cézanne, Monet, Klee, Picasso, Beckman..

  

  Ellsworth Kelly
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• As my own boss, I have the opportunity to get to work with great brands like Old Navy, and I get to style some looks together that people can actually buy and afford.

  

  Brad Goreski
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• I felt that in time simple stone tools would be found in early Pleistocene in England.

  

  Louis Leakey
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• There was a castle called Doubting Castle, the owner whereof was Giant Despair.

  

  John Bunyan

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

  

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