Steven Van Zandt Quotes

Life should never be boring.

Steven Van Zandt

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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.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Great
  • Home
  • Fake

• 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.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • Work
  • Done
  • You

• 'Getting smart on crime' does not mean reducing sentences or punishments for crimes.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • Mean
  • Smart
  • Crime

• People think I am funny all the time. But I am not. I am serious, too. Also, I enjoy serious, dramatic films.

  

  Kapil Sharma
  • People
  • Time
  • Funny

• Only in a concert situation do I have access to people directly to preach to them, and I don't believe that the bigger your platform is, the more people will pay attention.

  

  Larry Norman
  • People
  • Believe
  • Attention

• You will never succeed while smarting under the drudgery of your occupation, if you are constantly haunted with the idea that you could succeed better in something else.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Never
  • Better
  • Succeed

• It meant a lot because it was my first time to compete as a senior at that meet, which was kind of weird because I've done senior all year, but I didn't get to compete last year because of my elbow.

  

  Carly Patterson
  • Time
  • Done
  • Kind

• Kids have always play-fought, but I think my generation had a particularly privileged cultural fantasy surrounding military violence.

  

  Nate Powell
  • Kids
  • Think
  • Violence

• I'm known as a strange, aloof kind of man. But all I'm doing is trying to protect myself and my work.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Man

• Nobody likes insurance companies, especially health insurance companies.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Health
  • Insurance
  • Nobody

• On both of my flights, everything went very well.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Everything
  • Very
  • Well

• I like movies that leave you with something to think about, to discuss, to debate, you know?

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Know
  • Movies
  • Debate

• 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.

  

  M. K. Hobson
  • Fear

• The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer.

  

  Edward R. Murrow

• The war is language,language abusedfor Advertisement,language usedlike magic for power on the planet.

  

  Allen Ginsberg
  • Power
  • War
  • Magic

• 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.

  

  Alan Greenspan
  • Home
  • Risk
  • Financial

• So Bush certainly wasn't the greatest, and Obama has not done the job. And he's created a lot of disincentive. He's created a lot of great dissatisfaction. Regulations and regulatory is going through the roof. It's almost impossible to get anything done in the country.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Great
  • Country
  • Done

• No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.

  

  Denis Diderot
  • Nature

• 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.

  

  Bob Barr
  • Real

• In movies, you get to explore parts of yourself that in real life, people shy away from, like looking stupid or embarrassing yourself or getting too angry, anything inappropriate. As an actor, you walk into those moments.

  

  Jess Weixler
  • People
  • Life
  • Real

• The last day of your life is still going to be a day.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • Life
  • Day
  • Last

• When you meet people who are spending 70, 80 percent of their income on rent, eviction becomes much more of an inevitability than the result of personal irresponsibility.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • People

• Life should never be boring.

  

  Steven Van Zandt
  • Life
  • Never
  • Boring