Jeffrey Ross Hyman (Joey Ramone) Quotes
They asked me to sing - actually, it was Dee Dee, because he had seen me in Sniper and thought I wasn't like anybody else. Everybody else was doing an Iggy or a Mick Jagger.
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I grew up. I began to think the United States had some problems that really required the help of artistic people to solve. And I gave myself permission to be a writer instead of a civil servant.
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I don't like to Google myself. I try and avoid it whenever I can.
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One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves.
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I find that people in the food world are amazingly willing to talk about what they are doing, even when those things are quasi-legal or taboo.
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When you're trying to paint a portrait of a very specific world, you're trying to show what makes the world different. So, sometimes it means exaggerating certain kind of aspects, but I don't think it's that important or it's that much of an issue as long as you get an emotional truth across.
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Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
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Temptations, unlike opportunities, will always give you many second chances.
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After 2003, we lowered taxes across the board. And by 2004, revenue to the federal government grew. In the 1980s, Ronald Reagan cut taxes dramatically. And by the end of the decade, revenue coming in the federal government had doubled.
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I go out in New York, and I think, boy, you can look at someone and pretty much determine their zip code. Everyone seems to want to conform. I wonder, are they all just button-pressers, on the Internet all day long? I don't know.
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When you're young, oddly enough, you're more afraid, more conservative about what it is you have.
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I was a stand-up comedian for 10 years, if you can believe it. And I gave it up at age 22.
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I think I look great in pretty much everything... kidding! For the red carpet, I like to do really natural eyes and a nice sleek ponytail. Sometimes I'm into a really dark rouge, purple bold lip.
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I think often people don't realize the great diversity of Southern writing because in their minds, if you're not from the South, it can seem regional and small, and of course that's not the case at all when you start to read the work.
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I'm not a shouter, and I'm not a bully.
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But no nation can base its survival and development on luck and prayers alone while its leadership fritters away every available opportunity for success and concrete achievement.
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If I'm playing cards for pennies, I want to win.
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We tend to be more environmental at home than at work, regardless of the industry we're in.
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Bah, the latest news, the latest news is not the last.
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Aung San Suu Kyi's late husband, Michael Aris, was a good friend of mine at St Antony's, Oxford. The gentlest of gentle academics, he helped establish a centre in Tibetan studies at Oxford and converted to Buddhism.
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Without pay, no human being will work up to their ability if he or she is not cared for and respected.
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Time has now come which must probably determine whether Americans are to be freemen or slaves.
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Am I an ego on legs? No I am not. Do I want to be seen out there all the time saying everything? No, I don't.
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They asked me to sing - actually, it was Dee Dee, because he had seen me in Sniper and thought I wasn't like anybody else. Everybody else was doing an Iggy or a Mick Jagger.
