John William Cummings (Johnny Ramone) Quotes
The bigger the show, the better I'd play. It was what I was waiting for, and I'd never get nervous.
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For women in, say, Alabama, 'feminism' is a dirty word. They would never march in the streets. But although they don't think of themselves as the beneficiaries of feminism, they are.
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But with nonfiction, the task is very straightforward: Do the research, tell the story.
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I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.
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When I'm not working, I'm on the road with my band. Or I'm performing in poetry houses doing spoken work. So I've got another passion and another outlet that allows me to be creatively fulfilled and not sitting at home pulling my hair out waiting for the right role to come along.
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I'm associated with gospel music in the minds of millions of people.
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Dreams are not without meaning wherever thay may come from-from fantasy, from the elements, or from other inspiration.
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I wanted a personal-finance tool for people who didn't want to be accountants: something you could set up in ten minutes and spend less than five minutes a week on. Mint is now that tool.
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You would never see me driving around in a sports car. I feel like you're so low and squish-able by transport trucks.
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I have decided in 2020 to run for president.
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I'm not as tech savvy as some YouTubers, but I'm a lot better than my grandparents. Whenever I have a technical question, or something isn't working, I ask Google, and that usually throws up the answer.
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The more of what our music does violates the premise of its format that it's presented in, the better. So, hearing our music in the supermarket, a Muzak version, is great.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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The surveillance of ordinary people is far greater than I would have imagined and far greater than the American public has been able to debate.
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My parents would have loved it if my brother or I had become a doctor or lawyer.
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Professionally, I really respect Natalie Portman – her career choices, actually going for stuff with substance.
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Since I've had a son, I want to be around to see him grow up.
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A lot of the music I write is about love. Sometimes I won't understand how I am feeling until I write a song about it.
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Ours is one continued struggle against degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the European, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir, whose occupation is hunting and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with, and then pass his life in indolence and nakedness.
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Life isn't pretty but it sure is beautiful.
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And before you ask, I don't ask what equipment my lovers have, merely if they want to play.
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Popular glory is a perfect coquette; her lovers must toil, feel every inquietude, indulge every caprice, and perhaps at last be jilted into the bargain. True glory, on the other hand, resembles a woman of sense; her admirers must play no tricks. They feel no great anxiety, for they are sure in the end of being rewarded in proportion to their merit.
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Speech is the best show a man puts on.
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The bigger the show, the better I'd play. It was what I was waiting for, and I'd never get nervous.
