Douglas Glenn Colvin (Dee Dee Ramone) Quotes
Initially, I was very much concerned with having absolute control. But as time has gone by, I'm not. I mean, the whole first record was really just how I spent my free time: stoned and drinking coffee in my house, spending three hours on a song.
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That is what fame is, isn't it? To get the world to fall in love with you.
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Accepting your own mortality is like eating your vegetables: You may not want to do it, but it's good for you.
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To be smart on crime, we should not be in a position of constantly reacting to crime after it happens. We should be looking at preventing crime before it happens.
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The thing I love is that my home life hasn't changed. I still help out with the garbage. I still help out with the lawn.
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People imagine I am always in a Bentley with pearls and diamonds and black glasses and Karl Lagerfeld next to me.
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Canadians are very well behaved, they don't throw their food.
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The image we have would be impossible for Mickey Mouse to maintain. We're just... normal people.
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If there's ever any point in my life where I could meet Jennifer Aniston, I think that'd be pretty incredible!
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I love to have a bath with beautiful, relaxing music on and have no rush to do anything. It's a wonderful indulgence, and it helps me to calm down and stop my mind running overtime.
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Once you know the Romance languages, singing in those languages is so sexy and sensual. I do have a global audience, so why not?
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Punk rock isn't supposed to be for everyone. There is that sort of private club mentality, which is necessary. It keeps things from getting watered down and boring.
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I don't care what you do, I just don't want to be a mud hippie like you. [From 1994 woodstock]
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I never had a long-term plan.
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I have been vegetarian for twelve years. And I have never been seriously ill. Vegetarian food strengthens the immune system. I think that meat makes you sick.
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If you got beauty, beauty, just raise em up. Cause every inch of you is perfect from the bottom to the top.
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I'm trying to make the readers feel as if he or she is right there in the conversation, and so I don't try to manipulate it too much.
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My goal for 'Black Rock' was pretty simple: I wanted to make the feel-good record of the summer.
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So the Negro race has continued, and today is the day of the Negro as far as the world is concerned. They have influenced the generations of time; they have mixed their blood with many peoples, until there are many peoples not able to hold the priesthood.
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If you remember the shape of your spoon at lunch, it has to be the wrong shape. The spoon and the letter are tools; one to take food from the bowl, the other to take information off the page... When it is a good design, the reader has to feel comfortable because the letter is both banal and beautiful.
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Initially, I was very much concerned with having absolute control. But as time has gone by, I'm not. I mean, the whole first record was really just how I spent my free time: stoned and drinking coffee in my house, spending three hours on a song.
