Joey Kramer Quotes
Having really good ideas comes from being able to listen to everybody else and see what their ideas are, because they're coming from a completely different place. That's always been important. It's part of being in a band.
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I don't think many of us launched ourselves into the world of writing books fully formed.
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I think there's something very dark in the South African psyche. I think we live a lot of the time in a state of a very low-grade civil war; the levels of violence in South Africa are extremely high. In a way, the civil war that never happened is being played out in a covert way, so we live with a lot of very ugly things.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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Highly functioning self-actualized people simply never imagine what it is that they don't wish to have as their reality.
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I am very close to my brother Ramesh Babu. When my father was away for shootings, my brother would take care of me, and I am very close to him, and yes, Dad's always special. He used to call me and enquire about my film's progress. Whenever I deliver a hit, I can see a glow on my father's face.
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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
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I don't usually wear a lot of makeup because I tend to like a natural look.
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Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization.
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Reason cannot calm the storm of emotion, and emotion usually wins, until it settles down and allows reason to rise again and apologize on behalf of it.
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I had a flip phone until I was 25, and I didn't use social media until that age, either.
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Great men always pay deference to greater.
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I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
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People will always challenge you on an idea as long as it has not been concretized by somebody else.
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I got even with all the bad management I had by being a good manager.
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One result of An American Family was that I became a gay role model.
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You'll see the most perfect person, and you are like, 'God, she's, like, perfect.' And then she'll tell you everything that's not perfect. Everyone has their own special set of problems - in their own minds.
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I actually felt like I was starting a new career as a news reporter while playing in 'Pinocchio.'
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I rarely meet a politician that I don't like personally. They are generally well endowed with charm. Therein lies the danger.
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In my 39 years in the military, I have learned that you are not a profession just because you say you are. You have to earn it and re-earn it and re-evaluate it from time to time.
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I just don't think we think about jurists as rock stars or great thinkers, particularly in the political world.
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Every actor just wants good writing.
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Abroad, our most important policy is to support our troops and continue forward-thinking foreign policy in the war on terror - keeping our enemies on the run and hitting them before they hit us.
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It's important to practice good hygiene, At least if you wanna run with my team.
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Having really good ideas comes from being able to listen to everybody else and see what their ideas are, because they're coming from a completely different place. That's always been important. It's part of being in a band.
