Steven Van Zandt Quotes
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One of the great things about being a writer/journalist is that my boss loves me to go out and do features on being someone else. I did a feature on Kate Middleton, where I went to an incredible fancy state home in the countryside, put on a wedding dress and posed for engagement pictures with a fake Prince William.
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You do show after show after show and get them done and on the air. Television devours material. We work a minimum of 12, 14 hours, and often 15, 18 hours a day.
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'Getting smart on crime' does not mean reducing sentences or punishments for crimes.
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People think I am funny all the time. But I am not. I am serious, too. Also, I enjoy serious, dramatic films.
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Kids have always play-fought, but I think my generation had a particularly privileged cultural fantasy surrounding military violence.
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I'm known as a strange, aloof kind of man. But all I'm doing is trying to protect myself and my work.
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Nobody likes insurance companies, especially health insurance companies.
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On both of my flights, everything went very well.
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I like movies that leave you with something to think about, to discuss, to debate, you know?
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Nothing is ever what you want it to be. The harder you grab for it, the more deeply it cuts. And it mocks you for being foolish enough to reach for it at all. You come to fear touching anything at all, because you know that if you do, it will become terrible.
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The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer.
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The war is language,language abusedfor Advertisement,language usedlike magic for power on the planet.
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I was aware that the loosening of mortgage credit terms for subprime borrowers increased financial risk. But I believed then, as now, that the benefits of broadened home ownership are worth the risk.
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No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
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It is not just software glitches and corrupted memory cards that should be on the minds of election officials. Hackers pose another very real problem whereby an election could be tilted towards a favored candidate.
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I've been told that I wasn't Latino enough, which was code for 'street' enough.
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I believe that if you're healthy, you're capable of doing everything. There's no one else who can give you health but God, and by being healthy I believe that God is listening to me.
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When I came to America in 1978, I was a huge sports fan - the problem was, my sport was cricket. Shockingly enough, no one wanted to talk cricket with me!
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Life in the Middle East is quite different from other places.
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The usefulness of religion - the fact that it gives life meaning, that it makes people feel good - is not an argument for the truth of any religious doctrine. It's not an argument that it's reasonable to believe that Jesus really was born of a virgin or that the Bible is the perfect word of the creator of the universe.
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I love being able to create something from the page and bring it to life.
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A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.
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Life should never be boring.
