Johnny Van Zant Quotes
We write stories about common people and common things. That's what Skynyrd always is about - the real working class of America.
Quotes to Explore
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I think I would like to have lived in the 1930s and worn beautiful bias cut dresses all the time.
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Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.
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I have had someone ask me to sign their 'Team Taylor' panties. She wasn't a teenager. She was in her 40s.
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What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.
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Books are no different from goats! They enjoy an afternoon out on the lawn.
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Like most struggling writers trying to get their scripts commissioned, I had to do something odd to pay the rent. So, aged 21, I started up my own small cheesecake company in Philadelphia.
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I have to be smart. You cannot be going in there, trying to go forward and pressure guys, and be taking damage and getting hurt on the way to doing it.
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I'm vehemently against population transfer. I'm against expelling anyone from his house, ever - whether it be a Jew or an Arab.
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I have the ordinary experience of being anonymous when I'm in an airplane talking to air-traffic control, and they don't know who they're talking to. I have a lot of common experiences.
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It's the federal government's job to secure the border.
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There were uncles in my life that definitely knew the street life.
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Private education can give you confidence, which is marvellous; a sense of entitlement isn't.
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My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.
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It is incredibly important to set goals for your business, as if you have no direction for your business, your online business will be a failure.
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When you locate good in yourself, approve of it with determination. When you locate evil in yourself, despise it as something detestable.
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I was at a book convention, in a cab. On one side of me was Arthur Schlesinger; on the other side was William Manchester - real heavyweights. All they were doing was asking me about Charles Manson. The only thing that enables me not to be bored is the people talking about it - they're so interested.
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Teams are made up of a lot of components. They're made up of hunger, they're made up of desire, they're made up of chemistry, and they're made up of emotion.
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I think that we all know what evil is. We have a sense of what's evil, and certainly killing innocent people is evil. We're less sure about what is good. There's sort of good, good enough, could be better - but absolute good is a little harder to define.
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There's a logic today that places a greater value on celebrity the less it is accompanied by actual achievement. I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means.
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I thought twenty was pretty scary, like, not being able to call myself a teenager anymore, and feeling like an adult – that kind of made me nervous.
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Like it or not, we are all liars. Thank goodness. Imagine going through life where everyone is completely honest: 'Those shoes... look like something out of an early Cyndi Lauper video.' 'Your daughter... looks like the spawn of Honey Boo Boo and Elmer Fudd.'
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Well, I was a very strong opponent of the war, in fact, one of those who went door to door to my colleagues and thus achieved 60 percent of the Democrats voting no against this war.
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I love having my ghosts, and I love having my memories.
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We write stories about common people and common things. That's what Skynyrd always is about - the real working class of America.
