Douglas Glenn Colvin (Dee Dee Ramone) Quotes
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When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn't as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything.
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What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed.
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The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
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For very long, I wasn't able to find a place for myself in movies. After my initial success, I didn't know how to capitalise on it.
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It's important for people to understand where things come or what they represent.
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Excessive hype, bankruptcy, cash burning like autumn leaves - such is the stuff of short-selling.
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To stay true to your art is such a complicated journey, and Dad clearly has done it.
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Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.
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If you are a 5-year-old, you just go ahead and try something. You don't think about it. You are just a little kid.
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I moved out to Los Angeles a fan of many people, and meeting people I put on a pedestal that just disappointed me. Without fans, this business would not exist, so I try and say that we're all on the same level.
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The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.
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Conventional is not for me. I like things that are uniquely Flo. I like being different.
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Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?
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I normally wear Stuart Weitzman or Kors Michael Kors.
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Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse.
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I studied literature and Italian at Yale. I wrote my thesis about Italo Svevo, one of my heroes.
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The university is our culture's assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.
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Your life is a gift from the Creator. Your gift back to the Creator is what you do with your life.
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If you look at history, at the first time hip-hop was invented, there was a Latino right there. How they got erased, I don't know how that all came about.
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The only time I mind autographs is when I'm out with my family. You're trying to enjoy kids and grandkids and here comes a swarm, and there go your wife and kids. That happens to every celebrity. It's the price you pay.
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I wouldn't want to see any animal in pain, no matter what.
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Sanity is a matter of culture and convention. If it's a crazy culture you live in, then you have to be irrational to want to conform. A completely rational person would recognize that the culture was crazy and refuse to conform. But by not conforming, he is the one who would be judged crazy by that particular society.
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It's very expensive to bring a band to New York.
