Johnny Van Zant Quotes
My favorite singers in the world have been black singers, and you can go to any church and hear the best singers in the world - and I'm a singer, and I love singing!
Quotes to Explore
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It's hard to have people talking about you and trashing you in the media and saying they think your career is over... and you are only 25.
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No, but it's not because I'm getting older that I'm trying to accelerate. But something very curious is happening: The older I get, the more ideas I'm getting.
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Today, for the first time - and the Obama campaign showed us this - we can go from the digital world, from the self-organizing power of networks, to the physical one.
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I guess I have a certain willingness for audacity.
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There needs to be a place in the church or just outside - there needs to be a place where people feel free to ask questions without being put upon, where they feel free to ask difficult, challenging questions to voice their skepticism.
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Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.
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The Old Firm clubs are not easy clubs to manage and sometimes I think frustration comes in that, in the end, make you happy to be leaving.
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The irony is that, coming from a white-collar British background, I tend to play blue-collar Americans!
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When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.
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I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.
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Somebody can become a celebrity for being stupid. That is what it's turned into.
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I think subsuming political and economic conflicts into some grand 'clash of civilisations' theory or 'the West versus the rest' binary is a particularly insidious form of ideological deception.
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A funny thing happens in real estate. When it comes back, it comes back up like gangbusters.
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But when I go to Chicago, I know I'm home.
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I have loved movies as the number one thing in my life so long that I can't ever remember a time when I didn't.
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I'm usually working on eight or 10 things at once.
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Can you imagine what it would be like if all the Aussie film talent was able to make Australian stories?
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I heard it in 2008 and hear it again now - this notion that the only reason one would support Hillary Clinton is because she is a woman - or only because she is experienced and smart. She is all of those things. But I am with her because... Hillary Clinton inspires me.
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I think when it comes to decisions, I try not to be emotional. To drown out the noise and look at the important facts.
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You know, in my music career there was a moment where the irony was just so heavy. There were people in my audience that were the reason I developed neuroses. These people that tortured my life were using my art, my poetry, as fuel for them, to torture other people.
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I was born with a silver microphone in my mouth, and that was an advantage. My father wrote books and was also a great broadcaster.
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Violence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with violence.
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It is interesting to note that the Nobel Peace Prize won't be awarded this year. When one recalls that Martin Luther King got the prize last year, it may be just as well that the committee decided not to award one this year. Perhaps it was too difficult to choose between Stokely Carmichael and Ho Chi Minh.
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My favorite singers in the world have been black singers, and you can go to any church and hear the best singers in the world - and I'm a singer, and I love singing!
