John William Cummings (Johnny Ramone) Quotes

I didn't want the Ramones being told what to be doing, and I wanted the Ramones being presented in the right light - the remaining Ramones.

John William Cummings Ramones

• Presented
• Ramones
• Right Light

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I'm not at all a hero. I'm a wussy.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Hero

• There's no person I aspire to be. I'm just doing my own thing and seeing what happens - not looking to something and trying to be that.

  

  Flume
  • Trying
  • Doing
  • Looking

• People know who I am or are fans of 'Chelsea Lately,' and that makes my shows more fun. People know I'm silly and are on board with what I'm bringing to the table. I see the boyfriends who got dragged to the show by their girlfriends, and by the end, they're laughing harder than anybody. That's the best feeling: 'I knew I was going to get you.'

  

  Fortune Feimster
  • People
  • Fun
  • Feeling

• Every day, three times per second, we produce the equivalent of the amount of data that the Library of Congress has in its entire print collection, right? But most of it is like cat videos on YouTube or 13-year-olds exchanging text messages about the next Twilight movie.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Movie
  • Day
  • Cat

• Drums were my first instrument, my first love. I need rhythm, something that moves.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Rhythm
  • Instrument
  • Moves

• Suburbia, to me, was the most fantastical, unusual place. I thought it was Disneyland.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Thought
  • Place
  • Unusual

• When you're six years old, you do not appreciate that you're living in the Alps. My sisters and I, all we wanted was to go to Disneyland.

  

  Ahna O'Reilly

• Jesus died for somebody's sins but not mine.

  

  Patti Smith
  • Jesus

• I don't get complacent, because I know if you slack off, you're going to be found out. This is international boxing, and every fight is a tough fight.

  

  Katie Taylor
  • Boxing

• I've always thought if I could pick my interviewer, it'd be Charlie Rose, who I think is the best.

  

  Dick Van Dyke
  • Rose

• I never stop working.

  

  Jerry Lewis
  • Stop

• I never stay anywhere - parties, museums, meetings - longer than three hours.

  

  Eli Broad

• Comedy can be a little brutal, but not in a satisfying way.

  

  Jenny Slate
  • Comedy

• Once in a while, you'll get somebody who watched 'One Tree Hill' and 'Supernatural,' but by and large, whoever watches one show is very distinct. There's not a lot of crossover. It's like, 'This is my show, and I love this show. I know everything about this show. My show is my show, and it will be until I die.'

  

  Lindsey McKeon
  • Die
  • Tree
  • Supernatural

• I think filmmakers want their movies to be seen.

  

  Alex Winter

• Having the person that you love by your side and starting a family with them is the best thing that can happen to you in this life. You can't ask for more.

  

  Elsa Pataky
  • Life
  • Family

• The reason why 'Black Lives Matter' is a chant is because a lot of people feel, myself included, that sometimes they don't matter.

  

  Benjamin Watson
  • People
  • Why
  • Black

• I first started wearing fragrance when I was thirteen or fourteen, and the smell was candy-like. They were in very colorful bottles, like turquoise and pink. By the time I was sixteen or seventeen, it got more girly and more floral.

  

  Blake Lively
  • Time
  • Candy
  • Pink

• Talk radio around Boston is brutal, and I think that's part of what goes on is that people as they're driving to and from work start listening to these jerks, and I say jerks, because I don't think they know what they're talking about and they're just serving some things up as controversy so they can sell the show to sponsors.

  

  Tom Heinsohn
  • Listening
  • Driving
  • Controversy

• The way something is presented will define the way you react to it.

  

  Neville Brody
  • Way
  • React
  • Presented

• I've never presented. The logistics of that is a challenge.

  

  Michael Ritchie
  • Challenge
  • Presented
  • Logistics

• Ruthven surmised that he had hit upon some of the central deceptions which had wrecked him and reduced him and so many of his colleagues to this condition. To surmise was not to conquer, of course; he was as helpless as ever but there was a dim liberation in seeing how he had been lied to, and he felt that at least he could take one thing from the terrible years through which he had come: he was free of self-delusion.

  

  Barry Malzberg
  • Liberation
  • Colleagues
  • Helpless

• I didn't want the Ramones being told what to be doing, and I wanted the Ramones being presented in the right light - the remaining Ramones.

  

  John William Cummings Ramones
  • Presented
  • Ramones
  • Right Light