John Dawson Winter III (Johnny Winter) Quotes
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Marriage has always been a state and local issue.
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One of the things I did when I was in New York, which has a wonderful deaf community, is I have worked on making Broadway more accessible to deaf people.
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As a liberal and progressive, I abhor the notion of conflict and bloodshed and very much want to find a diplomatic solution to the Iran nuclear issue.
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Let us unite the world through the compassion for our children.
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If I take a less defensive tone, I'd admit that I couldn't write today a very jazzy, contemporary look at America as I did in 1979 in States of Desire.
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I make the music my ears want to hear, I wear the clothes my body wants to wear and the ones boys call me back for, and I generally make the songs that my feet dance to.
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The only routine with me is no routine at all.
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My dad said, 'Cam, you can make this situation a dream or you can make this situation a nightmare.' That struck a fire under me. That was my drive.
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Oh. Yes. There. Is. A. Lot of pressure. As a solo singer. Absolutely.
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I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies - thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that mean much to us.
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You have to captivate and entertain if you want your message to get across.
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The biggest competition is myself. I am not looking to follow others or pull them down. I'm planning to test my own boundaries.
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There are certain stars who are not actors. I don't want to be that type.
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Over half of the traffic that flows over our networks is coming from video. As you think about a business that is going to be video centric and video focused, you want to have scale on the video programming side to be able to take advantage of this.
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I think when you're a TV presenter, you have to have a reason for doing it, and a lot of them have been around a long time and grafted for that. The reason why it works with me on 'The Xtra Factor' is because I was a contestant on it, and I have a relationship with the viewers at home.
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An audience can really lift you right up off the stage.
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I have always been interested in the idea of self-reinvention.
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The difference between 'Watchmen' and a normal comic book is this: With 'Batman's Gotham City,' you are transported to another world where that superhero makes sense; 'Watchmen' comes at it in a different way, it almost superimposes its heroes on your world, which then changes how you view your world through its prism.
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It makes sense that whatever the topic is, it's more compelling if you can provide the audience with a range of perspectives, and you can cross disciplines. And you don't have to control what people take out of it.
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For me personally, I'm an activist, so I see a lot of turmoil and heartache in the world and tragedy.
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When they tried me out as a host on TV, I found that I just couldn't be that gregarious person. I was stranger than that.
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It's a weird thing where, especially in jazz, you have to totally mention cutting sessions and people one-upping each other and people being super, super tough on each other. And out of it emerge these genius musicians.
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Studies show that children best flourish when one mom and one dad are there to raise them.
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I really appreciate when someone can blow me away with live acoustic blues.
