John Larroquette Quotes
I was a French Quarter rat from the moment I could get on a bus by myself and go to the French Quarter. I played music most of my early life and it just seemed that to entertain people was a really good thing to do.
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Understated jewellery is not for me. It's too itsy-bitsy. My husband is lucky, as I've never had a yen for real jewels.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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The judge is forced for the most part to reach his audience through the medium of the press whose reporting of judicial decisions is all too often inaccurate and superficial.
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I had two sisters carried away in a chain-gang - one of them left two children. We were always uneasy.
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I like being my age. I kind of have a political thing about it.
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It's a good thing I don't read everything Eddie says, or I'd be up in arms and not enjoying my life.
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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
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Some have suffered death to make it possible for us to have the scriptures today. Historically, the scriptures in the Bible were reserved for the clergy, with the reading of them by others being denounced. At times, laws even prohibited the public or private reading of them.
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Constant togetherness is fine - but only for Siamese twins.
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If you think that by threatening me you can get me to do what you want... well, that's where you're right. But - and I am only saying this because I care - there's a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing.
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The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
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In 2001, I moved from Philly to Atlanta, where I lived for six years. I had never lived anywhere but Philly, and you can imagine the culture shock; the Civil War seeps into daily life and conversation down South in a way it never does up North.
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If you're beautiful, you're led to believe that you can't also be smart.
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For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.
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If you can't play guitar and sing in Nashville, you might as well just be a construction worker.
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I listen to music to when I'm feeling a certain way or to make myself feel a certain way. So why not make my own music inspired by true emotions?
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Ultimately, all human activities have as their goal the realization of happiness. Why, then, have we ended up producing the opposite result? Could the underlying cause be our failure to correctly understand the true nature of happiness?
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I've never been one to want to be the center of attention and be put up on stages every night. That's just not really my personality. I'm comfortable with it now, but my real passion is being creative.
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You've got to perform in a role hundreds of times. In keeping it fresh one can become a large, madly humming, demented refrigerator.
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'Shoop' is whatever you want it to mean. You just shooping around. Just shoop!
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First he threw out all of his records, trashed his heart and then he went to sleep.
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Strangely enough, I wasn't into fast guitarists. I preferred Peter Green's subtle touch. I saw him with John Mayall's Bluesbreakers at the Marquee Club in London and was very impressed. He was the only guitarist I've ever seen to turn the volume control on his guitar down during a solo.
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Too much of a good thing can be taxing.
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I was a French Quarter rat from the moment I could get on a bus by myself and go to the French Quarter. I played music most of my early life and it just seemed that to entertain people was a really good thing to do.
