Johnny Van Zant Quotes

We have a song called 'Skynyrd Nation.' It's just about what our fans are, what they do in getting ready for the show.

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• Rest when you're weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Work
  • Mind
  • Health

• I am in love with myself, with my friends, with my family, with kids, with life and my movies.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Life
  • Family
  • Kids

• My father is a silent cinema freak, so he took me to 1925 silent films that took forever, like 5-hour movies, but I've seen a lot of that stuff since I was young. And then I saw the film 'Annie,' and I just wanted to be Annie; I just wanted to be that orphan kid and wanted to sing and dance.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Father
  • Forever
  • Dance

• It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Violence
  • Politics
  • Better

• Anti-religious sneers are a hallmark of perpetual adolescents.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Religious
  • Religion
  • Hallmark

• I can remember the first time I ever recorded my vocals on to a beat. Cat Coore from Third World - a legendary Jamaican band - had a little demo set up at his house. I'm very good friends with his eldest son, Shiah, who plays with me now. So we were rhyming over a track by the dancehall artist Peter Metro. I've still got it somewhere.

  

  Damian Marley
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• In England, footballers are respected more, the game is more noble, there's less cheating. Every Spaniard who goes loves it - and comes back a better player. If I had ever left, it would have been to England.

  

  Xavi
  • Game
  • Player
  • Better

• I have never tried to compare myself to anyone else.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Myself
  • Never
  • Compare

• Being the Children's Laureate has been educational, sometimes hectic, but most of all, great fun.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Great
  • Children
  • Fun

• I would go from one city to the next, inspired by the monks in the Middle Ages, who would carry knowledge from one monastery to the next monastery.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Knowledge
  • City
  • Inspired

• We've been in the nation-building business since World War I, and especially since WWII. The goal is not a Jeffersonian Democracy in Afghanistan, but a representative government that respects human rights, protects its own people, and is a friend of the West. These are very realistic - and necessary - goals.

  

  Oliver North
  • People
  • World
  • Business

• The best complement I ever got from the public or producers or directors is that I just totally blend in and become the character and they don't notice me and that the play happens or the movie happens or the TV show happens.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Character
  • Movie
  • Me

• We have found that the most successful teachers in low-income communities operate like successful leaders. They establish a vision of where their students will be performing at the end of the year that many believe to be unrealistic.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Believe
  • Vision
  • End

• I am always interested in that relationship between outer reality and inner desire, and I think it is important to pay attention to the inner voice because it is the only way to discover your mission in life and the only way to develop the strength to break with whatever familial or cultural norms are preventing you from fulfilling your destiny.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Life
  • Important
  • Reality

• It felt when I was growing up that sport was, like, the only thing you should do... if you do music, you're really different and a bit weird.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Up
  • Music
  • Different

• We do need different types of propulsion to get to Mars. I wrote one of the first Ph.D. theses on that in the 1960s.

  

  Edgar Mitchell
  • Different
  • Need
  • First

• I want to be open to the kids who only speak Spanish, the kids who speak only Spanglish, and the kids who don't even speak Spanish at all.

  

  Becky G
  • Kids
  • Want
  • Speak

• Bigotry and science can have no communication with each other, for science begins where bigotry and absolute certainty end. The scientist believes in proof without certainty, the bigot in certainty without proof. Let us never forget that tyranny most often springs from a fanatical faith in the absoluteness of one’s beliefs.

  

  Ashley Montagu
  • Science
  • Faith
  • Communication

• Any atrocity that's committed against one person affects us all, and we are becoming more of one society, of a global society, so something that happens in the Middle East or something that happens in Africa, something that happens in Asia, affects all of us.

  

  Don Lemon
  • Society

• I always felt like Tahliah's a very grown-up name to have. It's a pretty name when you're young, and then I think when I became a young lady, it felt kind of like a lot to grow into for some reason. I don't know. It sounds kind of regal. I never really liked it. I always felt like I couldn't live up to it.

  

  FKA twigs
  • Up
  • Live
  • Pretty

• Every song, every form of art, clothing, shoes, it has to be special.

  

  Nick van de Wall
  • Art
  • Song
  • Shoes

• My father had a flourishing business as a publisher in North India.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • Business
  • Father
  • India

• We have a song called 'Skynyrd Nation.' It's just about what our fans are, what they do in getting ready for the show.

  

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  • Skynyrd Nation