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The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.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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Haitians don't like to say they are hungry because we are proud.
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Don't tell your problems to people: eighty percent don't care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.
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I spent much of my life - almost 40 years - as a military officer. My specialty was in the part of the Navy that operates ocean-going ships, and as a result, I was at sea for many months at a time.
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I'm really proud of her. A lot of good things are happening for her, and a lot of people are starting to pick up on her music. I'm sure we'll do more musical adventures together in the future.
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Heim ignored the mob scene on the 3V, rested his eyes on the cold serenity of the Milky Way and thought that this, at least, would endure.
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It's very expensive to bring a band to New York.
