Wayne Kramer Quotes
But when I was a teenager, the idea of spending the rest of my life in a factory was real depressing. So the idea that I could become a musician opened up some possibilities I didn't see otherwise.
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I was standing on the deck of the USS Blue, a destroyer. We were all alone out there at this buoy, tied up.
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I have a complicated relationship with the horror genre. I love it; I loved it as a kid growing up, and I watched Chiller Theater in New York. So I loved it, but then you do feel if you do it too much, you're stuck there.
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I was 17 when I was forced into marriage. I had no hand in it, and I didn't even enjoy being with the man. Also, I wanted to study, but no one listened to me. I wanted to move forward in life, it wasn't a happy situation. Because of some family problems, I had to stick around.
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We all know guys who've had their hearts broken in real life; we just don't usually see it in the movies.
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Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.
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Because I spent many years during my previous life as an academic researching game theory, some commentators rushed to presume that as Greece's new finance minister, I was busily devising bluffs, stratagems and outside options, struggling to improve upon a weak hand. Nothing could be further from the truth.
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Life's a bit like mountaineering - never look down.
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I've never judged anybody by how they look or how they dress. I basically judge them on their character. And that's how I lead my own life.
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The Saints are the elect children of the spouse of Christ, the precious fruit of her body; they are her crown of glory. And when these dear children quit her to reap their eternal reward, the mother retains precious memorials of them and holds up their example to her other children to encourage them to follow their glorious traces.
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My mom's whole life had been my gymnastics. We struggled to connect when I stopped.
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He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.
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If I would go up on a high note, Eddie would want a low one. That's how petty the situation had become.
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Even though many couples are choosing to marry later in life, our laws haven't been updated to address dating partner abuse.
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Be who you are. It's easy to feel like you have to blend in, but it takes courage to live your life with conviction and embrace the person that you are.
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My only goal as a comedian was to stomp the life out of the model-minority myth.
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I'm not particularly interested in painting, per se. I'm interested in a painting that has that mysterious life to it. Anything that doesn't partake of that magic is halfway dead - it returns to its physical elements, it's just paint and canvas.
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I couldn't be luckier to wake up every morning and be so excited to get to work, even if it's five in the morning.
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The growth in ethanol and biodiesel is something that I have worked on since I was secretary of agriculture in Kansas. I would like to see a lot more progress, because I think there is a real score to be made on this.
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Where your talents and the needs of the world cross, therein lies your vocation. These two, your talents and the needs of the world, are the great wake up calls to your true vocation in life... to ignore this, is in some sense, is to lose your soul.
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The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.
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I like to make songs that are based on concepts.
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I long for my garden to be complete. Working in it is one of my joys, but it will never be finished because it's forever changing with the seasons.
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If the court strikes down the Defense of Marriage Act, is that a 'liberal' result enabling gay couples married in states where gay marriage is legal to enjoy the same economic advantages that federal laws now grant to straight couples? Or is it a 'conservative' ruling, limiting the federal government's ability to override state power?
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But when I was a teenager, the idea of spending the rest of my life in a factory was real depressing. So the idea that I could become a musician opened up some possibilities I didn't see otherwise.
