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.

Jeffrey Ross Hyman Ramones

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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.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • People
  • Up
  • Help

• I don't like to Google myself. I try and avoid it whenever I can.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Myself
  • Try
  • I Can

• One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Children
  • Why
  • Still

• 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.

  

  Dana Goodyear
  • People
  • World
  • Food

• 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.

  

  Damien Chazelle
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• Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.

  

  Mao Zedong
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• Temptations, unlike opportunities, will always give you many second chances.

  

  Orlando Aloysius Battista
  • You
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  • Opportunities

• 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.

  

  Pat Toomey
  • Government
  • End
  • Taxes

• 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.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Long
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  • Day

• When you're young, oddly enough, you're more afraid, more conservative about what it is you have.

  

  Ed Weeks
  • You
  • Young
  • Afraid

• I was a stand-up comedian for 10 years, if you can believe it. And I gave it up at age 22.

  

  Samm Levine
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Age

• 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.

  

  Barbara Palvin
  • Great
  • Pretty
  • Nice

• 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.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • People
  • Work
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• I'm not a shouter, and I'm not a bully.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
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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.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
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• If I'm playing cards for pennies, I want to win.

  

  Carl Hubbell
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• We tend to be more environmental at home than at work, regardless of the industry we're in.

  

  Gale Anne Hurd
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  • Home
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• Bah, the latest news, the latest news is not the last.

  

  Samuel Beckett

• A logical theory may be tested by its capacity for dealing with puzzles, and it is a wholesome plan, in thinking about logic, to stock the mind with as many puzzles as possible, since these serve much the same purpose as is served by experiments in physical science.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Thinking
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  • May

• The word arse is as much god as the word face. It must be so, otherwise you cut off your god at the waist.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • God

• Perhaps Fate laid out your life for you like a dress on a bed, and you could either wear it or go naked.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Life
  • Fate
  • Bed

• The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Truth
  • Idea
  • Triumphs

• 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.

  

  Jeffrey Ross Hyman Ramones