John Berryman Quotes
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Ultimately, I'm not the most prolific person, but I've been doing this for a long time, and I keep on putting out music. The only thing that drives music is the people who are making it.
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The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.
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I am going to change the world, and I'm talking to everybody in the possible world that I can get to that can help me to do that.
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But I think we need the international market.
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Of course I'm naughty. I've always had to compete for attention, you see.
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The more walking-around money I have, the less I walk around.
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I could do a franchise for the end of everything. 'The End of Dogs,' 'The End of Cats.'
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We have agreed with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to cease all acts of violence against the Israelis and against the Palestinians wherever they are. Tranquility and quiet that will be witnessed and in our land, starting today, is the beginning for a new era.
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Vegetarians in general don't like me.
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If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies.
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Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross.
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I have always thought that writers come with any variety of attributes. Some are capable and some aren't.
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Starting in the third grade, my dad had me read the 'Denver Post.' I had to discuss two articles with him before dinner, and we would also watch '60 Minutes' together.
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You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.
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Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you.
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You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.
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Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
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There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience.
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Every president inherits a mixed bag when he comes to office, and Obama's was hardly the worst.
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Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy.
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It is only through my daughter that I have come to realise that a life without femininity – devoid of mystery, emotion, gentleness and the unerring power of a woman’s love – is no life at all.
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Getting married was a ball. Being married was... a nightmare.
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When I first heard that song, it was a ballad but it had a lot more. It felt like a gospel song when I first heard it and it just moved me.
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Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so.
