John Dawson Winter III (Johnny Winter) Quotes

When I started workin' with Muddy. That convinced me that I could get away with doin' the blues.

John Dawson Winter III

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• There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

  

  Samuel Johnson
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• I'm a liberal, but I'm not biased. Seriously.

  

  Walter Cronkite
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• When I met Eric Clapton, I was a very young girl. I was 20 years old. And we were linked for a very short time, and then we became friends. And then we lost touch, which I'm really sorry about.

  

  Carla Bruni
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• We took a plant that was being closed by a big company thinking there was no good use for it, and we came in with a different perspective. We bought some used equipment, as simple as we could.

  

  Hamdi Ulukaya
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• I agree that the two-party system stomps on any kind of competition. A great first step is to open the presidential debates to all qualified candidates, including the Libertarians. If that happens, the Libertarian party will experience unprecedented growth.

  

  Gary Johnson
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• I'm disregarding all the rules I've seen as people approach writing music. I'm trying to break them.

  

  Verite
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• I am not a celebrity. I work with celebrities, and it is very difficult. When a celebrity wears a dress, it's good for business, so brands fight for the red carpet. Me? I don't like it, because fashion becomes a job about dressing celebrities. And it's a bit boring.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
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• We're living in a time when parenting is not at all mirroring the way I was parented. For me, I just followed my parents around on their errands; when they were busy on the phone, I was quiet. It's a different kettle of fish these days: They run the house, and you listen to their music, and you go to their appointments.

  

  Edie Falco
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• In the Sixties, fashion was about liberation. It was about setting women free; it wasn't about being unable to walk.

  

  Veruschka von Lehndorff
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• You can only watch injustice go on for so long until you're compelled to say something. To speak out against it.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
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• My name has become a brand - it could be make-up, clothing, perfume.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
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• I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
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• I've never wanted to be put into a box, not musically.

  

  Queen Latifah
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• I'm not thinking about the next record really yet. I kind of want to do a bunch of stuff with Jonathan Zawada, the guy who did the album art. I'd like to do some crazy art installations and design some weird synthesizers and work with other people and make some fun stuff for a bit. Maybe tap into virtual reality stuff or maybe write another record.

  

  Flume
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• It may be a coincidence, but from the minute I took anti-depressants, I didn't pick up a guitar or a pen for seven years.

  

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• I was quite insistent. We have quite a few pranksters in the lab and I thought this was one of them. I even congratulated the man, ironically, on his Swedish accent.

  

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• Ethel patted her hair and looked very sneery.

  

  Daisy Ashford
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• I want people to understand that we, the American people, are not each other's enemies. The real enemies are those people who are trying to divide us into every little possible group.

  

  Ben Carson
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• When asked to explain this space, I often ask people to forget pretty much everything you've heard about blockchains, crypto-currencies, and bitcoin, and instead dumb it down a lot and think about something no more complex or intimidating than good old-fashioned database technology.

  

  Blythe Masters
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• If your gonna drop out of school / tough grades are not your goal / then change your name to Candy and learn to work a pole.

  

  Carlos Mencia
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• I've done a lot of surveys and interacted with a lot of students, and I was shocked to see that at 12 years old, girls are already talking about dumbing themselves down.

  

  Danica McKellar
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• Be prepared, work hard, and hope for a little luck. Recognize that the harder you work and the better prepared you are, the more luck you might have.

  

  Ed Bradley
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• It has been a fortunate fact in the modern history of physical science that the scientist constructing a new theoretical system has nearly always found that the mathematics. . . required. . . had already been worked out by pure mathematicians for their own amusement. . . . The moral for statesmen would seem to be that, for proper scientific "planning", pure mathematics should be endowed fifty years ahead of scientists.

  

  R. B. Braithwaite
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• When I started workin' with Muddy. That convinced me that I could get away with doin' the blues.

  

  John Dawson Winter III