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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With all due respect to the nation's fish and game departments, more deer die because people hunt them than because people feed them.
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I grew up in Illinois.
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When I write and develop things myself, I might work for a while on a script from a book, and then I go back and read the book and go back into it to see if I lost something: is there something there?
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We all share a common goal - we want our children to succeed.
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Where your life leads you, you must go.
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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.
