John Anthony Genzale (Johnny Thunders) Quotes
A lot of people don't think they can count on me, but I've never missed a gig in my life.
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I was born in Dallas, Texas, but I was raised in south Florida. 'Ice Ice Baby' is about that area.
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I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.
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On my mother's side, I'm English, so that's where the freckles come from. On my father's side, I'm German, and he has the fantastic olive hues... I was given mum's skin, whereas my brothers and sisters were given my dad's skin. I do tan up quite well, but it takes me a bit longer.
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The victory of the working people over the exploiters and slave holders is at the same time the victorious struggle for liberation by the German people.
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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My favorite thing to do in this world is to be on the ice playing hockey and try to entertain fans and bring wins to the Chicago Blackhawks.
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How can it be said we should use only constitutional means in our struggle, when all resistance is illegal and we have no way to change the brutal realities of the racism regime?
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I think the key to getting rid of illegal immigration, no matter where its coming from, is that you need to have a good legal apparatus for immigration.
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I like the condition of being an outsider, just passing through.
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I'm not a politician, I'm not an ideologue, I'm not an organizer anymore. I'm a human being sharing ideas, and those ideas have to feel fresh and from my heart and my head, and I have to feel it. You can't force that feeling.
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This result was confirmed by different researchers using various experimental arrangements.
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Romy and I, we're learning how to share the xx with people who aren't in the xx.
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I want more women to run countries. There'd be more peace on Earth.
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I went out to Mount Kilimanjaro, which I thought was very beautiful, but there were a lot of people there.
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David Bowie and Boy George created a safely contained theatrical expression of gay style.
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There are times when we must sink to the bottom of our misery to understand truth, just as we must descend to the bottom of a well to see the stars in broad daylight.
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Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
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While there are manners and compliments we do not meet, we do not teach one another the lessons of honesty and sincerity that the brutes do, or of steadiness and solidity that the rocks do. The fault is commonly mutual, however; for we do not habitually demand any more of each other.
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Growing up, I'll always remember knowing from movies and TV that there was a possibility that you wouldn't fall in love. I always thought, 'Oh my God, I hope I'm not that person.'
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Laugh. Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful though you have considered all the facts.
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I often told the fanatics of realism that there is no such thing as realism in art: it only exists in the mind of the observer. Art is a symbol, a thing conjuring up reality in our mental image. That is why I don't see any contradiction between abstract and figurative art either.
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One of the big ways in which I felt my own writing life shaped by recovery had to do with my relationship to other people's stories. And one of the things I loved most about recovery was the way in which, in meetings and through fellowship, you are constantly kind of paying attention to lives outside of your own.
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Some people haven't got a life, I suppose. They want to be on the road all the time.
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A lot of people don't think they can count on me, but I've never missed a gig in my life.
