John Dawson Winter III (Johnny Winter) Quotes
Yeah, we went to England to do a show and I got off the plane and I couldn't write my name or hold my hand up.
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Where are the gains for religious freedom and human rights to justify all the bombings, invasions and wars we have conducted in the lands from Libya to Pakistan - to justify the losses we have endured and the death and suffering we have inflicted?
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Nearly all government advice on terrorism sacrifices practical particulars for an unalarming tone. The usual guidance is to maintain a three-day supply of food and water along with a radio, flashlight, batteries and first-aid kit.
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Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.
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As a mom, you do what you have to do without even thinking about it.
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Honestly, I find the analysis of dreams is one of the dullest things. I say this as a therapist kid. I find them deeply uninteresting, as a window to the soul.
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The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies.
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I found it more challenging to act in a small scene, especially if it has no dialogue and if it is a close-up with only expressions.
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If you're not careful, you can fall into a destructive cycle of self-pity.
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If it were not for government regulation of big corporations, executives at companies like Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, they could have cheated investors out of millions.
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You can learn something about a person by the company she keeps.
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I felt that as long as we were being honest, and that we didn't bend the truth to accomplish another goal, to be entertaining or to be a happy ending, I was confident that we'd be able to tell the story the way it happened.
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So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.
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If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it.
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I just think there's a general interest in the world of computers.
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I know so many Irish musicians. They're all over, because there has been so much emigration from Ireland. Like the Jews.
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I watch a lot of bad TV. I spend my entire day reading and writing, and after dinner my idea of fun is just to watch a lot of bad TV. That's how I relax and stay in touch with modern culture.
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I don't work with a stylist.
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A movie will do in one second, with one image, what it will take a novelist at least a page to describe.
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I am specifically concerned about the idea that the legislative process is one that gets characterized the way it is as the 'fiscal cliff.' At the end of the day, the United States is the biggest economy in the world, and the dollar is the reserve currency in the world. I think it behooves us to act in a much more responsible way.
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I've been wanting to do a book about baseball for the longest time, and nobody will let me do it. It's the one thing from America I really miss.
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I think the confidence that I have right now is something that was created by the fans who love me.
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Sometimes you have to shove all the surface stuff to the side in order to see what's underneath.
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In terms of animation, animators are actors as well. They are fantastic actors. They have to draw from how they feel emotionally about the beat of a scene that they're working on. They work collaboratively.
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Yeah, we went to England to do a show and I got off the plane and I couldn't write my name or hold my hand up.
