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 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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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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It's a trap I've fallen into earlier in my career - trying to be liked. Don't do it. When I watch TV and I see someone trying to make me like them, acting cute or quirky or goofy, I'm not impressed. Don't act like America's watching you. Just latch onto your character. Characters are flawed. Be unlikeable. Be flawed. Be a person.
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I make no claim to being a business genius. You can make so much money in this business that it loses its value.
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All of us admire people we don't like and like people we don't admire.
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You have no idea how hard it is to live out a great romance.
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I went into performing for the community. Being backstage with your company of fellows is the best part of working in live theater. That energy, that combined focus, the synergy - it's addictive.
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I have no ghost writers. I personally write every message and every piece of published mail.
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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.
