Jeffrey Ross Hyman (Joey Ramone) Quotes
Everybody's just emulated us and now everybody just kinda takes our sound as their foundations.
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Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'
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It's important for American soldiers to be culturally sensitive when deployed in foreign countries. But it's just as important for the U.S. never to renounce the most fundamental American values, which, after all, are also universal values.
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Sometimes the better an actor is, the less he's noticed.
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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
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When you have too much scheme, sometimes it's hard to work on all the things you have to, and you can make effort the top priority of your game.
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I think the purpose of a piece of music is significant when it actually lives in somebody else. A composer puts down a code, and a performer can activate the code in somebody else. Once it lives in somebody else, it can live in others as well.
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I've never been tempted to do these hideous furniture shoes.
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I have such a crush on Shirley Manson. I think she's the coolest thing.
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For some people, miracles serve as evidence of God's existence.
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We have to keep in mind that it's not just about the numbers of people who died; it's also the manner which many of these victims met their deaths.
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Social peace requires reciprocity.
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The Paris peace talks kept a roof over my head and food on the table and clothes on my back because if something was said going in or coming out, I had the rent for the month.
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I approach things from my feeling first. I have to get a feel for the character. I'll do that through music; I'll do it through what is naturally popping up for me when I read the script. My ideas or whatever the occupation of the character might be.
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I'm really focusing now on how I can get to the next level as a batsman. How can I get even more competitive? How can I get even more consistent? How can I get better?
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'Vagabond' is about owning where I come from, understanding the real power music had to transport myself with, whether that's busking in Europe or getting number ones.
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It's always great to visit Taranaki; it's beautiful, and I've caught some great waves there.
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I came to the United States in the early '80s and was welcomed with open arms and given the opportunity to pursue my dreams. God has been very kind to us. My family and I are fortunate enough to be successful and we feel a tremendous responsibility and obligation to give back to our great country.
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For me concrete poetry was a particular way of using language which came out of a particular feeling, and I don't have control over whether this feeling is in me or not.
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Slavery is a memory of something we cannot remember, and yet we cannot forget.
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Give me something new, and I'll do it with all my heart.
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I certainly wasn't able to get it when I was a kid growing up on the Lower East Side; it was very hard at that time for me to balance what I really believed was the right way to live with the violence I saw all around me - I saw too much of it among the people I knew.
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There is only one inborn error. and that is the notion that we exist in order to be happy.
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I did the co-writing thing all through the '90s and I got one hit out of it - a Keith Urban song called 'But For The Grace Of God' - but then I got burnt out.
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Everybody's just emulated us and now everybody just kinda takes our sound as their foundations.
