John Grogan Quotes
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I don't know if it's my music, my lyrics, my sound, and knowing the music business the way I do-all I can say is, my career has lasted way longer than I expected.
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Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.
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I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.
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There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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When I was a kid, I wanted a Chanel bob and bangs. My mom said no. I went to the salon anyway, and they said, 'No way - we are not going to do that to your hair.' So I did it myself. Big mistake. Instead of my bangs going down straight, they were sticking up like a cat. It was horrible.
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It will be disastrous when a leader or manager shows up with one attitude one day and treats people with a different attitude the next day.
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I just know you can not be on top forever. There's always going to be the next guy, and if I'm going to go down, I'd like to know I helped the next guy take my spot. You can't prevent the inevitable, but you can join the ship.
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The Chinese are really good at diplomacy - and even at making their interlocutors feel very uncomfortable.
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My company invents all kinds of new technology in lots of different areas. And we do that for a couple of reasons. We invent for fun - invention is a lot of fun to do - and we also invent for profit. The two are related because the profit actually takes long enough that if it isn't fun, you wouldn't have the time to do it.
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People trash talk me.
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Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if you're not careful.
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And we broadcast tapes sent to us from Americans against the war. These were most effective I believe.
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Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
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My profession has helped me to grow up.
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Playing live, you can't survive, certainly not in England. We used to work daytime jobs and play gigs at night. It was very exhausting.
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The U.S., especially Hollywood, is so strong for film production.
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We really tried hard not to make it a cricket book, it appeals to a much wider community.
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I got a psychology degree from USC, but music is just my whole life.
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People don't settle for people. They resolve to be with them. It takes faith. You draw a circle in the sand and agree to stand in it and believe in it.
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There are a lot of bad screenplays so if you write a good screenplay people are going to respond to it.
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I think Gore does have to worry. He is tied to Bill Clinton. We know that there were telephone calls that he made from his office. We know that there were visits to the Buddhist temple.
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Because school was so terrible was probably why I was driven to write.
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A dog is the greatest gift a parent can give a child. OK, a good education, then a dog.
