Joey Kramer Quotes
Everybody is always raving about the Rolling Stones, saying, 'The Stones this, and the Stones that.' I've never cared for the Stones. They never had anything to offer me musically, especially in the drumming department.
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I've known I wanted to do this ever since I was a little kid and I used to get in trouble at church for goofing off all the time: mocking the preacher, imitating people and the things they did. I later learned my mother used to be just as goofy as I was when she was younger. I mean, Eddie Murphy in 'Coming to America?' My hero.
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I really found this campaign odious. I couldn't get up for it. The quality of the candidates and the campaign, I just found the whole thing second-rate. I didn't know how to explain to my granddaughter that I was spending my dotage writing about Al Gore and George W. Bush.
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Every director bites the hand that lays the golden egg.
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Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.
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I'm trying to encourage more women to be themselves, rather than what men want them to be. I don't believe in patronizing either sex.
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Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown.
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If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.
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The emotions have been seen as the center of woman's soul. For that reason, emotional formation will have to be centrally placed in woman's formation.
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I am - and have always been - a Methodist.
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Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
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Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.
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For every quarrel a man and wife have before others, they have a hundred when alone.
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I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher.
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It is man's own fault, it is from want of use, if his mind grows torpid in old age.
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There was nothing so antipodal to his nature as this man's cold, unimaginative sagacity, by contact with which everything was converted into a dream except the densest matter of the physical world.
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Revere thyself, and yet thyself despise.
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I'm not a libertarian. If you are, you're welcome to vote for me and help this party, but we're not gonna build the party around libertarian ideas.
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An Englishman thinks first of his work - his job, he calls it - and then of his sport, and last - a good way last - of his wife.
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A wise man once said, 'Convention is like the shell to the chick, a protection till he is strong enough to break it through.'
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Of all the works of man I like bestThose which have been used.The copper pots with their dents and flattened edgesThe knives and forks whose wooden handlesHave been worn away by many hands: such formsSeemed to me the noblest.
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Chocolate is one of the world's most beloved discoveries, and when we need a quick boost of energy and endorphins, chocolate is the go-to treat.
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To the truly driven (which one has to be to survive in the high stakes, competitive world of show business), lack of opportunity means nothing. The TDs always think numbers are for everyone else and don't involve them.
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I have known writers who paid no damned attention whatever to the rules of grammar and rhetoric and somehow made the language behave for them.
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Everybody is always raving about the Rolling Stones, saying, 'The Stones this, and the Stones that.' I've never cared for the Stones. They never had anything to offer me musically, especially in the drumming department.
