John William Cummings (Johnny Ramone) Quotes
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When you start losing market share, it's really tough to gain it back; you need the product portfolio and presence in many markets.
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Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.
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I was drawing a mandolin, and I made the sound hole very small, which made the mandolin look gigantic. I saw that making the details small made the form monumental. So in my figures, the eyes, the mouth are all small, and the exterior form is huge.
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You never get fans hanging out on movie sets. It just never happens.
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The further I've gotten into the Internet, the more I've become convinced that we've explored only a tiny corner of what it can mean and what we can feel there.
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Questioning authority is, I think, a great thing to instill in children. I just didn't have enough of that when I was little.
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Citigroup, Bank of America, and JP Morgan Chase should not be permitted to charge consumers 25- to 30-percent interest on their credit cards, especially while these banks received over $4 trillion in loans from the Federal Reserve.
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I've always been a creative speller and never achieved good grades in school. I graduated from high school but didn't have the opportunity to attend college, so I did what young women my age did at the time - I married.
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If there's something I want, I go for it. I just think about how I'm going to go for it.
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You gotta understand, when moving images first started, people wanted sound, color, big screen and depth.
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A lot of my characters are underdogs or sad or lonely, but I had a comfortable, golden sort of childhood.
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I don't have an ego; I'm not egotistical or anything like that.
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I do try and curb my mouth, but I find it really hard. I wonder how many jobs I've talked myself out of!
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A modest dose of self-love is entirely healthy - who would want to live in a world where everyone hated themselves? But taken too far, it soon becomes poisonous.
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My goal is to make a movie that no one would sort of expect me to make.
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Musicians and journalists are the canaries in the coalmine, but, eventually, as computers get more and more powerful, it will kill off all middle-class professions.
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Virgin Galactic, which will be operating SpaceShipTwo, will be only one of several spacelines. The competitors for Virgin include the Russians, Bezos's Blue Origin, and possibly Rocketplane Kistler. And likely a couple of others who are smart enough not to tell people what they are doing!
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The whole question of God and what God is, and whether it's a blond guy with a beard, I don't know... I don't know that. Do I believe that there's something greater at work than the sum of humanity? Yeah, I think so.
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The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.
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History is not what happened 200 or 2,000 years ago; it's a story about what happened 200 or 2,000 years ago.
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I'm fortunate in that I'm what you call a utility player, in that I can take a scene, if there's five or six minor characters in a scene, that need voice and personality and I can supply those characters.
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I stuck with that size because I could bend the strings so well, and somewhere along the line I must have gotten it into my mind that I had small hands, so I was thinking I'd never be able to play a full-scale guitar, but I also felt like I was cheating or cutting corners.
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It might sound ordinary for a woman to find out her husband's cheating on her, but not if you're the woman and it's your husband.
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I never wore earplugs — that would have been cheating.
