John Anthony Genzale (Johnny Thunders) Quotes
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The question we all face is what sort of culture we will live in for the rest of our lives and then hand on to the next generation - one that embraces these most basic of values, or one that collapses because of their absence.
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You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.
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I think the last thing you want to do as a writer, as a storyteller, is to create indifference. I don't necessarily go out of my way to provoke, but I would much rather have a song that triggers a whole myriad of reactions than a song that inspires a shrug of the shoulder.
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All beautiful things in this world are because of women.
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I think I present an overwhelming case that these five justices were up to no good, and they deliberately set out to hand the election to George Bush.
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I love the 2000s because everyone started to love haute couture.
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Ah, you may leave here, for four days in space, but when you return, it's the same old place.
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There are three kinds of despots. There is the despot who tyrannises over the body. There is the despot who tyrannises over the soul. There is the despot who tyrannises over the soul and body alike. The first is called the Prince. The second is called the Pope. The third is called the People.
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Pretty much all children are helpful to act with; they lack any guile when they act.
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Chance alone is at the source of all novelty, all creation in the biosphere.
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I don't think of myself as a hard man, but other people may think otherwise. You know you have obligations to do the best you can for people, for your job, for your shareholders... it all has to be balanced between the hardness and the softness.
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What we learned several years ago was that one of our weaknesses would be if we didn't develop enough people with the know-how to run our company, it would come to the point where we would just stop.
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I'd love to do acting, but it'd definitely have to be comedy. I can't do serious. It's completely beyond me.
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A true portrait should, today and a hundred years from today, the Testimony of how this person looked and what kind of human being he was.
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You should go to the polls, organize yourself. But once lawmakers are chosen, they must be respected.
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For acquiring companies, the excitement is almost always about where they are going - that is, their strategy for gaining greater growth and productivity. But when mergers fail, it's often because no one focused on who they are - that is, their culture, which is critical to successfully bringing different groups of people together.
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I believe that fear of life brings a greater fear of death.
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I've always thought live albums were cop-outs.
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My fans are the best; I love hanging with them.
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We were like a white family from the 1920s or something. My parents had this bizarre, different way of looking at things from the people that surrounded us. I went to an all-Mexican grade school and an all-black high school, and not many people in those places liked the same stuff as me.
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I'd like to have a beer-holder on my guitar like they have on boats.
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I always have an attitude. Even if there are no plans, I have an attitude. Perhaps I answered imprecisely before, saying that I am just a person. I am actually a person with an attitude.
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The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.
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The Dolls were an attitude. If nothing else they were a great attitude.
