Johnny Rivers Quotes

I got to see all these incredible blues players, like Jimmy Reed.

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• I want my shows to be eerie and mysterious.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Want
  • Shows
  • Mysterious

• Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Day
  • Smile
  • Humor

• When you're a war correspondent, the reader is for you because the reader is saying, 'Gee, I wouldn't want to be doing that.' They're on your side.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • War
  • Doing
  • Saying

• I don't think being a writer who is religious means you have to write about nothing but religion. When I do write about religion, it's to inform the story, not to push a certain agenda.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Think
  • Religious
  • Religion

• I'm really interested in playing my age.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Age
  • Really
  • Interested

• Barack Obama's victories in 2008 and 2012 were dismissed by some of his critics as merely symbolic for African Americans. But there is nothing 'mere' about symbols.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Nothing
  • Some
  • Symbols

• I started 20 years without missing a race and ESPN started broadcasting on the air waves.

  

  Dale Earnhardt
  • Air
  • Years
  • Missing

• Trust me: I've been travelling, making movies, and spending the remainder of my time at home.

  

  Kajal Aggarwal
  • Time
  • Home
  • Trust

• I've heard 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' read, and I tell you Mrs. Stowe's pen hasn't begun to paint what slavery is as I have seen it at the far South. I've seen de real thing, and I don't want to see it on no stage or in no theater.

  

  Harriet Tubman
  • Real
  • Want
  • Slavery

• I learned at an early age that what we were doing in the choir was just as important as the preacher. It was a ministry in itself. We could stir the pot, you know?

  

  D'Angelo
  • Important
  • Age
  • Doing

• Reality in movies is the reality of the story you're telling, so it may not match the reality as we know it, but the reason there's art is that it tries to bring some kind of understanding of all the suffering and joys and pain that we go through. Storytelling brings some value to it.

  

  Caleb Deschanel
  • Art
  • May
  • Reality

• There's always been a confusion about my sensibility. 'Is he kind of edgy, or is he Carol Burnett?' I'm a little bit of a hybrid. I like to please, but I like dark stuff, too.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Kind
  • Dark
  • Confusion

• Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.

  

  I. F. Stone
  • Truth
  • Slavery
  • Lie

• I've been very focused on my career outside of tennis.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Career
  • Tennis
  • Outside

• I am one of the million or more male residents of the United Kingdom, who a year ago had no special yearning towards military life, but who joined the army after war was declared.

  

  Patrick MacGill
  • Life
  • War
  • Military

• People make snap judgments about me that are frequently misguided.

  

  Bebe Neuwirth
  • People
  • Me
  • Make

• I pass my life in preventing the storm from blowing down the tent, and I drive in the pegs as fast as they are pulled up.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Life
  • Up
  • My Life

• I wanna record these girls individually. And then, I wanna cut a blues album on me. But all of it, original stuff, you know. When I listen to the blues today, it's like they all sounds similar. I wanna do something different, to try to add to the blues flavor.

  

  Ike Turner Ike & Tina Turner
  • Know
  • Girls
  • Blues

• I hate that word 'hate' - it should be banned.

  

  Nicole Appleton All Saints
  • Hate
  • Should
  • Banned

• When you have such a following, you can influence all these people, not only older people, but the younger people.

  

  Skip Marley
  • People
  • Influence
  • Following

• In France everything is a matter for jest. People make quips about the scaffold, about Napoleon's defeat on the banks of The Beresina, and about the barricades of our revolutions. So, at the assizes of the Last Judgment, there will always be a Frenchmen to crack a joke.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Judgment
  • Joke
  • France

• Album 1 is proving that you're worth listening to, album 2 is proving that it wasn't a fluke, and album 3 is the most authentic thing I've ever done.

  

  Andy Grammer
  • Done
  • Listening

• There is artistic beauty to the way biology functions, nature functions, and science functions. I am trying to bring that kind of understanding in the design space.

  

  Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
  • Trying
  • Nature
  • Science

• I got to see all these incredible blues players, like Jimmy Reed.

  

  Johnny Rivers