Douglas Glenn Colvin (Dee Dee Ramone) Quotes
All of my favorite records have vocals high in the mix, even if it's music that wasn't necessarily mainstream.
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I like to have friends in the kitchen and make a big mess and use every pot in the kitchen.
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In a way, 'Like Crazy' keys into our generation, this idea of now we can still be in communication. Where do the boundaries of relationships end?
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I was born with success. Lucky for me I am able to handle it. Also, I damn well deserve it!
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Unjust Cause: This art is worth more than ten thousand staters, that one should choose the worse cause, and nevertheless be victorious. (tr. Hickie 1853, vol. 1, Perseus)
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I actually started working in Chicago while I was still a student; I did the Chicago premiere of 'The History Boys' at the end of my junior year. I had come to Chicago for Northwestern University. I didn't quite know about the theater community, and what I did know was mostly the improv.
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America's highways, roads, bridges, are an indispensable part of our lives. They link one end of our nation to the other. We use them each and every day, for every conceivable purpose.
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My life owes me. Like an overdose, I'm slowly Drifting into the arms of trouble, then trouble holds me
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Radio was my life growing up. Then, I started in our family band with my uncle, my father, my aunt and my little brother. We would go to The Chicken Box and all the bars and play.
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We were supposed to get it the first of December.
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Hey, you've got the girl, I've got the picture. That's fair, right?
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Maybe we just like winners, ... We hope some of that will carry over to the Redskins.
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I had made myself the center of my own existence and had my back turned to God.
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Life can't work for you if you don't show up as you.
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But for real, for me, I feel like with the red lipstick thing it all depends on the pair of complexion. I'm just being for real. You have to be fair skinned to get away with that.
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I hope that people of all faiths will start looking for our too-invisible children who are crying out for help.
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I'd like to have a beer-holder on my guitar like they have on boats.
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The world of technology is the sum total of what people do. Its redemption can only come from changes in what people, individually and collectively, do or refrain from doing. —Ursula M. Franklin
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I write the vocals last, because I wanted to invent the music first and push the music to the level that I had to compete against it.
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I applied for three jobs in record companies and was offered all of them. I took the most glamorous-sounding job in the promotions department and it began my love affair with the music industry.
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All of my favorite records have vocals high in the mix, even if it's music that wasn't necessarily mainstream.
