Jeffrey Ross Hyman (Joey Ramone) Quotes
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My parents spent 16 years hauling my butt to L.A. for audition after audition. I remember always hoping I could help take care of them because they took such good care of me.
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Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Doctrines provide an architecture for both Republican and Democrat presidents to carry out policies.
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The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.
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I feel like God gave me the ability to play a game. I try to take it very seriously. I realize it's just a game.
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I love children. I just don't know if I'm ready to have kids. I feel like I have more time. Kids are cute, you know? They need a lot of help - that's the thing.
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Never thought acting was something you could make a living at. It wasn't until I was in college, and got a lead in a play, that I began to realize I might just be able to blunder into this profession.
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You cannot make peace with terrorists. The normal dividing lines between war and peace do not apply.
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It's not comfortable for me to write about my family. I'm not comfortable writing about me.
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It takes people a while to trust you.
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I just have an inability to lie.
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I did one touring show with Horatio Sanz. We went to, I think it was Iowa State University, and we were in this field house, so people were sitting on the floor. It started out with 2,500 people in there. We delivered the most mediocre improv, and it went from a crowd of 2,500 to 250 people in the course of 45 minutes. It was grim.
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I think there are certain business matters which we must now conduct differently than we used to.
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During the first million years of its existence, mankind survived five apocalypses without succumbing to extinction. It endured the Apocalypse of Steel, the Apocalypse of Hydrogen, the Apocalypse of Serotonin, and both Apocalypses of Water, the second of which occurred despite certain contracts to the contrary.
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Comedy is created when someone is trying very earnestly to do what he feels is the right thing to do at that moment.
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You may have heard of the Slow Movement, which challenges the canard that faster is always better. You don't have to ditch your career, toss the iPhone, or join a commune to take part. Living 'Slow' just means doing everything at the right speed - quickly, slowly, or at whatever pace delivers the best results.
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I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.
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When I was on stage with the Spice Girls, I thought people were there to see the other four and not me.
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I really love New York, but I have to say, the humidity during the summer is a nightmare for a cartoonist. Not only am I sweating in my studio, my bristol board is curling up, the drafting tape is peeling off the board, my Rapidograph pens bleed the minute I put them to paper... it's a disaster.
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If a Snickers chocolate bar has 50% sugar, wouldn't it be safe to eat the other half?
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Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.
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Literature invents its own rules.
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Any one may so arrange his affairs that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose that pattern which will best pay the Treasury; there is not even a patriotic duty to increase one's taxes.
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The first record I bought may have been Del Shannon's 'Runaway.'
