Johnny Rivers Quotes
What I really remember is that people camped out everywhere, and the fact everybody expected it might turn into a big nightmare with all sorts of hassles because back in those days everybody was smoking pot and taking acid.
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I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness.
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People want to see a movie that casts a mature woman across from a mature man.
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There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue. Live being true to the single purpose of the moment.
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Going to bed can cause imaginary conversations you should have had with certain people or real conversations with your brother who is calling from a bar in a different time zone.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.
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It might be, it could be... it is! A home run!
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In a way, I envy the freedom artists have. Artists can push themselves beyond their limits, in pursuit of their ideas and their vision, even if they are inhabited by demons that can also play tricks on them.
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I love my career right now, and I won't be with anybody until they make my life as satisfying and as happy as my work makes me.
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I believe there is little to gain by exchanging opinions with other artists concerning either the ideology of art or technical methods.
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Most people consider me an optimist because I laughingly state that I would take my last two dollars and buy a money belt.
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All the big online retailers are looking at how to enter the Russian market.
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All the audience cares about is what you put up on the screen.
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No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
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Language is fun; it's fun to try.
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I had a teacher at school who said, 'We are going to do a play next year, and you're in it.' He said, 'You should try out for the Royal Academy as an actor.' I did and got in. I was 17. My mum wasn't too happy, but it worked out OK.
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Men treat men differently than they would a woman.
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I want to score in every game and win things. That's the most important thing.
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They're drinkin' home brew from a wooden cup. The folks were dancin' there got all shook up.
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I would close every recruiting station, disband the Army, and disarm the Air Force. I would abolish the whole dreadful equipment of war, and say to the world; 'Do your worst!'
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So, it takes a lot of chance and luck. I mean I was lucky enough to get in the program where people with the same skills never made it to the program. So keep trying.
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Romantics value intensity over stability. Realists value security over passion. But both are often disappointed, for few people can live happily at either extreme.
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I think little of people who will deny their history because it doesn't present the picture they would like.
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What I really remember is that people camped out everywhere, and the fact everybody expected it might turn into a big nightmare with all sorts of hassles because back in those days everybody was smoking pot and taking acid.
