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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Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan understand that government does not create jobs. Entrepreneurs do.
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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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Writing is a very intimate thing, especially when you write lyrics and sing them in front of someone for the first time. It's like a really embarrassing situation. To me, singing is almost like crying, and you have to really know someone before you can start crying in front of them.
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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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We have plenty of technologies we could use to destroy the planet, and we don't. There's more love on this planet than hate; there's more creativity than destructive power.
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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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If I hadn't have been good enough at football, I'd have been a sports journalist - which is what I do now anyway. Or a cricketer. I might have been a cricketer.
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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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The mentality has taken over because of the way we've promoted things. It's been accepted, to live with fear, and to fear that it's going to be terrible, prepare for the worst. The meat and potato of our existence right now is influenced by what happened after 9/11 - we put our thinking into protecting borders.
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Several years ago, I began losing my hair, and like a lot of men, it was a major concern to me, in fact it was practically an obsession. But, also I'm an actor, so I'm in the public eye a lot and I really felt that my hair loss could affect my career prospects.
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I will not play just an evil part. In fact, I got offered $7 million several years ago to play the part that Faye Dunaway played in 'Supergirl.' I was kind of insulted. I was impressed with the money, but I said, 'Why are you asking me to play an evil witch? Do I come across as an evil witch to you?'
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When we engage people positively, we create a receptive platform for the ideas and information we wish to communicate.
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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.
