Joey Kramer Quotes
I have been through a lot of ups and downs in life, both personally and professionally, and I discovered over the years that I have a lot of fortitude, and I got that from my dad.
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The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.
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What clients are really interested in is honesty, plus a baseline of competence.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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America is another name for opportunity.
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I want every day to be life for the living, not just traipsing through it existing. I'm just interested in life and the world and exploring.
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For some, being involved in a scene is a great thing because the social element can drive creativity. For me, though, it's never really been like that. It's the opposite. I've always had this instinct to escape.
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I played ping-pong with Prince. That's pretty surreal. He gave me a lesson before we played; like, he's great. He's a master at it, so I took the free lesson.
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I had to jump on the tractor and do my chores. I would have just killed to be in town, to be able to Rollerblade hand-in-hand with somebody I had a crush on. I just wanted to get off the farm, to find my outlet.
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Buildings are forms of performances.
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I used to say, 'There is a God-shaped hole in me.' For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now I find it is the shape which has become more important.
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There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.
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I am always attracted to the moments when a person who is associated with a certain message, image or sensibility evolves. I am very interested in how audiences respond to that maturation and absorb the evolution.
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My mother would give my brothers and me a pile of catalogues and let us pick what we wanted for Christmas.
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Most people looking for dinosaurs are looking for beautiful skeletons.
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Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.
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It's fun to present stories that have a character that, really, everybody wants to be.
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Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.
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I always had a fascination with twins.
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We're all going to change. Otherwise, it's boring. Who wants to stay the damn same all their life?
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We cannot get grace from gadgets. In the Bakelite house of the future, the dishes may not break, but the heart can. Even a man with ten shower baths may find life flat, stale and unprofitable.
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I am persuaded that in the case of elected officials, the overwhelming temptation is to conclude that it is more important for your constituents that you be reelected than that you deal honestly with them.
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There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot.
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It's very rewarding to know that people respect what you do.
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I have been through a lot of ups and downs in life, both personally and professionally, and I discovered over the years that I have a lot of fortitude, and I got that from my dad.
