John Dawson Winter III (Johnny Winter) Quotes
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Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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In occupied Iraq, the introduction of new paper money took almost a year, 20 or so Boeing 747s, the mobilisation of the U.S. military's might, three printing firms, and hundreds of trucks.
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I was a dancer when I got discovered, and I started working immediately. I started being in commercials and doing guest star roles. My first big thing, which happened maybe six months after being discovered, was 'Bring It On: All or Nothing.'
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An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.
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Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.
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I just like putting outfits together without much thought and seeing what the outcome is.
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Looking back, I can see that the women I loved, at least early on, were status symbols. I suppose, in that sense, I was my mother's true disciple. She'd taught me that a good man, though elusive, could transform one's whole life once he was caught.
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You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.
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The main thing that you have to remember on this journey is, just be nice to everyone and always smile.
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That's free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing - the truly democratic thing about it - is that you don't even have to be a player to lose.
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The goal is always to do B material in an A fashion.
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God has created us and poured love into our hearts so that we may do our best to alleviate the suffering that is around us.
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We are different people - you get a different take on the band whoever you speak to. Somehow, at the end of it, it goes through the filtering process and out comes the Radiohead thing.
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I have always been fascinated by dark and mysterious stuff. I guess I have a pretty dark and gloomy side. Writing songs saves me from going completely gonzo.
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I think it's important to have your own individual style and sense of self. It's kind of what I do.
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What opera isn't violent? Two things happen, violence and love. And other than that, name something else. You can't.
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I do not know Tyrone Power. I fucked him a lot, but I do not know him. Gentlemen, this meeting is over.
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It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed Wisdom. And then I know exactly what is going to follow: Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.
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No civilization on the brink of collapse has ever changed fast enough to avert collapse.
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We really ought to give ourselves a collective pat on the back for doing as well as we have in a universe of constant media change and mutation.
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In a world where it is so easy to neglect, deny, corrupt and suppress the truth, the scientist may find his discipline severe. For him, truth is so seldom the sudden light that shows new order and beauty; more often, truth is the uncharted rock that sinks his ship in the dark.
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When I work I am pure as an angel tiger and clear is my eye and hot my brain and silent all the whining grunting piglets of the appetites.
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I just like the blues better than rock 'n' roll.
