Johnny Marr Quotes
I never took fans for granted. I always assumed subconsciously that people who followed what I did were just people who were kind of like me.
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I just have a connection with sign language. I always thought the deaf community was a different community to be a part of. In high school, me and my friend took sign language.
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I'm half-black, half-white, so I basically put it like this: I can fit in anywhere. That's why I write so many stories from so many different perspectives, because I've seen so many.
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Just being the seeker, somebody whose open to spiritual enlightenment, is in itself the important thing and it's the reward for being a seeker in this world.
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The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong!
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Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure.
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It's nice for me to be in touch with a younger generation.
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The only thing documentary filmmakers have to work with, at least the way I make films, is trust. That's been true of everyone from James Carville and George Stephanopoulos to the kids in 'American High' to the soldiers in 'Military Diaries' to Anna Wintour to Dick Cheney.
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And they just saw me on that and - from the time I was 11 until I was 12, I guess. And then when I had just turned 13, they asked me if I wanted to tour with Johnny Cash back East.
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Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.
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I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit.
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When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
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I think I owe it to myself to put my best effort forward and prove how good I can be.
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Richard Donner is one of the few directors in Hollywood that can make whatever movie he wants exactly the way he wants it. No one will stop him.
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If India has to achieve exponential growth, it would have to be on the back of strong growth in the manufacturing sector.
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I'm used to being part of 'Game of Thrones' and going into something where you're a small part of something else. You don't want to hold anything up because they've got such a well-oiled machine going.
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It kind of scares me, the notion that we're going to be injecting ourselves into other countries' affairs when they're not posing a threat to our security. I wouldn't be telling Israel what to do.
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The Sherman Act is similar in the economics sphere to the Bill of Rights in the personal sphere.
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I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.
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It's common in rural Ireland to pick up a nickname that relates to an animal, bird, or a spider. Mine became 'scorpion' because I fought back, and scorpions are docile creatures until pushed too far.
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As a chef, I could not wash my hands - nor clean pots, pans, utensils, meats or produce, nor make soups and sauces - if I did not have clean water. Were this to happen, of course, these would be the least of my concerns. Because water is the linchpin of survival: without it, not much else matters.
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One of the other things I think that I've been able to do in my life, is to listen well.
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Ease makes less of an impression on us than struggle.
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Every vital organization owes its birth and life to an exciting and daring idea.
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I never took fans for granted. I always assumed subconsciously that people who followed what I did were just people who were kind of like me.
