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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All I came to Los Angeles with was a dream. No one from my family ever left Ohio.
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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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I was pretty taken with Patti Smith, she was my heroine.
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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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Believe me, I've taken a lot of heat for my mustache.
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It is too often not realized that culture itself is an adaptive tool, one of whose main functions is to make the physiological emergencies come less and less often.
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I prefer the smaller budget versus the bigger budget because the mentality that goes along with big budget filmmaking doesn't really suit me; the mind-set that money is the answer.
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Nothing had been attempted like that, to lift Dad's voice, literally, off of that track and put it on a brand-new one, and then line it up, match it up, get the phrasing right. I remember listening - everyone listening at the end, and we were just enthralled. It was really wonderful.
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Every boy grows up trying to be like his father, but what if a boy grows up to be like his mother?
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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.
