John William Cummings (Johnny Ramone) Quotes
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The problem is foster youth don't really have this network that other kids have.
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I have a reputation for being hermitlike. I'm not. I'm just obsessed with my work.
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In some ways, with the security challenges this country has faced, we have had to put in rules and regulations for business to be able to sustain their growth and create jobs.
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Often I play, especially on television, a lot of smart lawyer people and cerebral types.
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A little and a little, collected together, becomes a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop make the inundation.
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I never saw myself as being ambitious, I saw myself as being in love with the profession. I'm a people person. I love to get to know different kinds of people.
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I was very rebellious.
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When I began I thought that literature was contained within a bubble that somehow floated above the world commented upon by newspapers. But I became more and more interested in trying to include some of that world within my work.
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I choose projects that resonate with me on some personal level and projects that I'm afraid to do. If I'm afraid to do them, then I usually say yes, because it means that I'm not ready to go there and deal with certain aspects of the script. And that means that I need to do it, because the things that scare you only make you better and stronger.
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Most people marry their mother. I married my father.
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I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?
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We have lost a lot of ground to the extremists in the Middle East.
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Senator Wyden continues to be the Senate's truest champion of an open Internet.
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My lips are big, but my talent is bigger.
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I went to Phoenix, Arizona for 'Angel Unchained,' and they'd hire the bike gang from Phoenix to be extras in the movie.
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I let people fill in the blanks on their own. If they want to think about their ex, that's fine. If they want to think about maybe who one of my exes is, then that's fine. And it might not be right, because I'm the only one who knows what these songs are really about. It's the one shred of privacy I have in the matter.
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I first met Jimbo Wales, the face of Wikipedia, when he came to speak at Stanford.
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I'm really scared of flying. Like, really, really, really scared.
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America is a country founded on guns. It's in our DNA. It's very strange but I feel better having a gun. I really do. I don't feel safe, I don't feel the house is completely safe, if I don't have one hidden somewhere. That's my thinking, right or wrong.
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Leadership is a choice. It's the choice not to do nothing.
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My father was a golden boy from a very small town. He won a very prestigious law scholarship to NYU Law School, and there in Greenwich Village, he met my mother, who was very young, fresh off the boat from Germany.
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I've made social mistakes. We've all made our mistakes and tried things we kind of wish we didn't, but we plan around it. Things happen in situations that are unique and different, and no one is perfect.
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I'm really proud of Gunsmoke. We put on a good show every week - one that families could all watch together without offending anyone.
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Two of my biggest heroes were my father and John Wayne.
