Johnny Rivers Quotes
When I came back to California in the early '60s I was hanging out with Jimmy Bowen, Phil Spector, and I wanted to be a record producer and work with other artists.
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I have received the greatest honor in my life - and the greatest surprise. Never did I dream that the Nobel Prize could be awarded for the reciprocal relations.
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I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.
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Unfortunately, America doesn't have a minister of culture, and I don't understand why. It's really bad for young people.
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I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.
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I like someone with a really good and dark sense of humour.
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Well, I always say the law was meant to be interpreted in a lenient manner. And that's what I try to do, is sometimes I lean to one side of it, sometimes I lean to the other.
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I need to meet people to be able to write.
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I cannot tolerate fools - won't have anything to do with them. I only want to associate with brilliant people.
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You need tremendous spirituality to stop yourself falling into the abyss.
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Whenever I walk out on a stage, I'm begging for affection.
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I hate the domestic life.
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I can't touch Simon anymore.
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Only Arab Israel, the land of Israel, is our true homeland.
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I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.
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'Power' is really such a good show that I forget I'm in it sometimes.
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How it happened that Mastro Cherry, carpenter, found a piece of wood that wept and laughed like a child.
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When I started wrestling, I started only to get in shape. I found out that a wrestling school had opened in Ireland, and I wanted to go because I was hanging out with the wrong crowd and I wanted to turn my life around.
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I really would like to be involved in things and to understand things, and in some ways you've got to be careful what you wish for because I feel very, very blessed to have such an interesting life and to be able to have little snapshots of lives of people from many different parts of the world.
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For my stand-up, I always have my notebook with me and if something strikes me, I'll write it down.
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You need to have tremendous confidence in your work, even a touch of arrogance, chutzpah. Many very fine researchers lack intellectual daring. It's human nature to want to be cozy, secure. But that can be a cul de sac.
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You can't be a first-world economy in the 21st century if you haven't laid the groundwork to seize the opportunities.
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I think that's the key to any artistic endeavor: You want it to feel fresh and not have people look at it like it's re-creation of something else unless it's done in a really strong way.
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The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man.
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When I came back to California in the early '60s I was hanging out with Jimmy Bowen, Phil Spector, and I wanted to be a record producer and work with other artists.
