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 are many franchises today, and again I could begin to articulate them one by one, who have deep trouble. … We have a remarkable number of teams losing a lot of money.
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When I go to a library and I see the librarian at her desk reading, I'm afraid to interrupt her, even though she sits there specifically so that she may be interrupted, even though being interrupted for reasons like this by people like me is her very job.
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I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, toys not included.
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With boys, you always know where you stand. Right in the path of a hurricane.
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I think there's a lot of pressure on young people to really be the thing that everyone is telling them that they are, opposed to discovering it for themselves.
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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.
