Joe Perry (Anthony Joseph Perry) Quotes
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I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
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I've never paid too much attention to what other people have said or to what other people have tried to make me be. I've always just tried to be myself, which is such a weird thing to say.
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I very much want to be in the business of creating content, of doing stories all over the world rather than figuring out what the business model is for 'Newsweek' on the iPad, although that's very important work as well.
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Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow.
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My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, California.
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Wisdom is a sacred communion.
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My neighbor doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied.
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I can't tell you how many things I've worked on where I sat on it for a few years, and then somebody else did something very similar. Whether it's some weird vocal effect you hear on another record, or a drum beat, or even a song title, a subject matter, or a mixture of different kinds of music.
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Everybody just told me from the day I went into high school that I looked like Carol Burnett.
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I am very interested in what has been called bad taste. I believe the fear of displaying a soi-disant bad taste stops us from venturing into special cultural zones.
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It is always interesting and sometimes even important to have intimate knowledge of a composer's life, but it is not essential in order to understand the composer's works.
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In the past, people worked together only when some great disaster threatened.
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Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic book.
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Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
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I was about to give up acting when I got the call about being short-listed for 'Dangal.'
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Some white people hate black people, and some white people love black people, some black people hate white people, and some black people love white people. So you see it's not an issue of black and white, it's an issue of Lovers and Haters.
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Striking out Ruth and Gehrig in succession was too big an order.
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I got that nickname my first spring training camp with the Expos in 1974. Tim Foli, Ken Singleton and Mike Jorgensen started calling me 'Kid' because I was trying to win every sprint. I was trying to hit every pitch out of the park.
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I learned to cook in self-defense. My wife doesn't know what a kitchen is. In the first month of our marriage, she broiled lamb chops 26 nights in a row. Then I took over. I used to mind her not caring about food, but no more - as long as I can eat what I want.
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I've had a good life, and was born to and among people I've admired and loved.
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I decided that what I really wanted to do was go off and paint.
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Creative industries are more important than the car industry, luxury jewels, and fashion.
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Even when we cannot see the why and wherefore of God's dealings, we know that there is love in and behind them, and so we can rejoice always.
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I love Indian food - it's my favourite cuisine. I love the mixture of spices and the subtle flavours. It's really erotic; the spices are so sensuous.
