Johnny Van Zant Quotes

It's for the common people, people who have made this great country of ours. That's what the heck I say we always write about.

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• As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Teenager

• One of our first jobs was at Saba Software. We were helping them build their products for the cloud. We wanted to build our own product and move away from consulting. We were looking for a change. The CEO of Saba introduced me to Marc Benioff.

  

  Parker Harris
  • Change
  • Helping
  • Looking

• Another thing that's quite different in writing a book as a practicing newspaperman is that if you look at what you've written the next morning and you think you didn't get it quite right, you can fix it.

  

  Adam Clymer
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Book

• I'd say Juventus has a story as legendary as the Yankees.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • Story
  • Say
  • Legendary

• Love is reaching out to try to get to the other person.

  

  Gary Chapman
  • Love
  • Person
  • Reaching

• Entrepreneurship requires flexibility and an open society, and there will always be people who succeed and people who follow. For those who lead, they have an obligation to create a better life for the people around them.

  

  Daniel A. D'Aniello
  • People
  • Life
  • Society

• If there was ever a man born to be a hitter it was me.

  

  Ted Williams
  • Man
  • Born
  • Hitter

• The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform... But it is likely to exert an indirect and reciprocal influence on science itself.

  

  Ada Lovelace
  • Science
  • Know
  • Influence

• We should not have assumed that a political space station could be built.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Political
  • Space
  • Should

• Because I was a tennis player, Billie Jean King was a hero of mine.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Player
  • King
  • Hero

• I think you can have a ridiculously enormous and complex data set, but if you have the right tools and methodology then it's not a problem.

  

  Aaron Koblin
  • Problem
  • Tools
  • Data

• I am an inventor of music.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Music
  • Inventor

• What I've always said is that I'm opposed to institutional racism, and I would've, had I've been alive at the time, I think, had the courage to march with Martin Luther King to overturn institutional racism, and I see no place in our society for institutional racism.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Time
  • Society
  • Courage

• I feel like I'm creeping closer to finding the situation that triggers songwriting, which is obviously an extreme of an emotion.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Feel
  • Finding
  • Songwriting

• If you happen to live close to the desert border, you can pretty much calculate how long it will be before you have to carry your kids away and abandon your home and your life as you know it.

  

  Magnus Larsson
  • Life
  • Long
  • Live

• I was never the girl that grew up saying I want to get married. I actually told my parents to not expect me to get married.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Up
  • Parents
  • Girl

• When I started Teach For America, I wasn't trying to come up with an idea that would change the world. I was trying to solve a problem much closer to home: I was a senior in college, and I had no idea what I was going to do with my life!

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Life
  • Up
  • World

• Throughout the Middle Ages the sway of the Church over the moral and spiritual life of the people, her power to inspire and direct their enthusiasms and energies, her chance for molding their conceptions of life, were amazing and unparalleled by any other force.

  

  Walter Rauschenbusch
  • People
  • Life
  • Power

• You don't get a script sent to you for two years, it crosses your mind, 'Gee, what's going on?' Then five years pass, and pretty soon a decade has gone by. Finally, you say to yourself, 'Well, if in fact that's it, then let me be happy with 30 pictures that made about $460 million and pictures that made a lot of people laugh.'

  

  Dean Jones
  • People
  • Mind
  • Happy

• Our life is full of empty space.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Life
  • Space
  • Empty

• Maybe there are times when an honest hatred serves us better than love corrupted by sentimentality, meretriciousness, sententiousness, cuteness.

  

  Walker Percy
  • Better
  • Honest
  • Hatred

• My campaign confirmed my belief that although there are bigots in America, whose hateful rhetoric seizes the media's attention, the vast majority of people do not harbor such prejudice.

  

  Edward Brooke
  • People
  • America
  • Attention

• It's not a question that people have a very negative image of Chicago. They just don't think about it.

  

  Desiree Rogers
  • People
  • Question
  • Chicago

• It's for the common people, people who have made this great country of ours. That's what the heck I say we always write about.

  

  Johnny Van Zant Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • People
  • Country
  • Made