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The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.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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Asks the Possible to the Impossible, 'Where is your dwelling place?' 'In the dreams of the impotent,' comes the answer.
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I enjoy politics, but if I had a third career - and I've had multiple careers - my third act would be acting.
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We played some gigs in Switzerland a couple of weeks ago and it was the first time I really felt the group was really a band in the sense of something I could write for.
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Veterans are driven by the same frustrations that the public has with what is happening in Washington... the fiscal irresponsibility and the financial crisis that our country is facing.
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It's very expensive to bring a band to New York.
