Johnny Rivers Quotes
I think after 1970 or so, after I sold Soul City, I took off for awhile and didn't do too many gigs.
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Bush already gave obscene tax breaks to people like me and Warren Buffet, and we are saying it's not fair.
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Children have a great urge to learn about dinosaurs.
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He who would not be idle, let him fall in love.
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I don't care about revenues.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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I've had completely gray hair since, like, 30.
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Now, I don't know how they judge all that, but if anybody in the world deserves to be in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Ritchie Valens does.
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Do something because you really want to do it. If you're doing it just for the goal and don't enjoy the path, then I think you're cheating yourself.
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I've been in real estate for my whole life, I've been trying to sharpshoot the market with my investments, I'm never right. All you need to do is get near the bottom. That's good enough.
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I've had my heart broken and then gone out and done dumb things.
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Islam is fixed, stable, ordered and disciplined, and so are Muslims.
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I always said punk was an attitude. It was never about having a Mohican haircut or wearing a ripped T-shirt. It was all about destruction, and the creative potential within that.
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Economic progress and better education have directly resulted in the birth of a class of voters who are better informed, very demanding and highly critical.
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Photography, painting or poetry – those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating.
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The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them.
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You can't escape from what you are.
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Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.
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We view ourselves on the eve of battle. We are nerved for the conquest and must conquer or perish. It is vain to look for present aid: None is at hand. We must now act or abandon all hope!
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Holiness is the architectural plan upon which God buildeth up His living temple.
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Writers in repressive societies are considered dangerous. That's why so many of them are in jail.
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The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.
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Life is a joke that's just begun.
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Wishy-washy equivocations - and not just on abortion, but on immigration, on civil rights, on income inequality - weaken all of us.
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I think after 1970 or so, after I sold Soul City, I took off for awhile and didn't do too many gigs.
