John William Cummings (Johnny Ramone) Quotes
People were even too scared of me to tell me that people were scared of me.
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
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Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given quite a bit of thought to that.
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To the best of my judgment, I have labored for, and not against, the Union. As I have not felt, so I have not expressed any harsh sentiment towards our Southern brethren. I have constantly declared, as I really believed, the only difference between them and us is the difference of circumstances.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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I'd feel bad pretending my life was anything other than pretty good, so I do the role as well as I can and then I go home, have a cup of tea, see my family and friends, and appreciate what I've got.
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Game-playing is more fun when it's virtual because you're more successful. ... in reality, only one person gets to be LeBron.
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I don't feel closeted.
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One of the side benefits of staying in the closet is you can have a much bigger career.
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I wanted to be Beetlejuice. I watched nonstop 'Beetlejuice' and 'The Princess Bride' growing up.
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When you feel stuck in a hard time, jump-start a pro-change attitude by letting go of possessions that no longer work for you - like old clothes and old shoes.
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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I think we have to keep working enormously hard to see that every single Indigenous child - every Australian child - has true equality of opportunity. We've got to work harder at it. I think, you know, the heartland issue for us is the gap; the gap in life expectancy in this country.
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We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
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The secret of being a great actor is a love of food.
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Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.
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I'm originally from San Francisco. I might move there some day. But, I like L.A., I have fun in L.A. It's a fun town if you've got money in your pocket. It's a good town.
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Many people decide to jump from niche to niche, as they cannot find success immediately with the niche that they have chosen for their online business.
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The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.
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The Spartans were a paradoxical people. They were the biggest slave owners in Greece. But at the same time, Spartan women had an unusual level of rights. It's a paradox that they were a bunch of people who in many ways were fascist, but they were the bulwark against the fall of democracy.
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You want the good life? You live where white people live, you go to school where white people go to school, and you shop where white people shop.
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I was always daydreaming about singing in big productions on Broadway.
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I grew up in Wisconsin loving hockey. I mean, I started when I was three years old on skates.
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People were even too scared of me to tell me that people were scared of me.
