Joe Perry (Anthony Joseph Perry) Quotes
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I can tell you, all the intelligence services in the world were running my name through their databases to see did anyone by this name come in the country? When? Do we know anything about it? Where did she stay? Who did she see?
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I am a very reclusive, private person.
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My friends in the TV news business are in a state of despair about Donald Trump, even as their bosses in the boardroom are giddy over what he's doing for their once sagging ratings.
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Success is not like a cake that needs to be divided. It's more like a heap of stones - a cairn. If someone is successful, they add a stone to the cairn. It gets very high and can be seen from all over the world. That's how I see it.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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But I have never wanted to be a singer, because the exterior part of a career, I don't like very much.
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My valleys are higher than most people's peaks. I stay at that level.
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I run a solid 4-6 miles at a time, and over the last year two years I've gotten really into SoulCycle. It's sort of an evolved form of spinning.
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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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I think it's a mistake to go after someone just based on looks. But I always respond to people who don't act that interested in me.
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If you are not living this moment, you are not really living.
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Personal responsibility is not only recognizing the errors of our ways. Personal responsibility lies in our willingness and ability to correct those errors individually and collectively.
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I realized that if my thoughts immediately affect my body, I should be careful about what I think. Now if I get angry, I ask myself why I feel that way. If I can find the source of my anger, I can turn that negative energy into something positive.
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When you forgive somebody, it doesn't necessarily mean you want to invite them to your table.
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Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.
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I will not claim I will solve all the world's problems by myself. If I did, I'd have to run as a Republican or a Democrat.
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No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
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Just being famous feels cheap to me.
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The Princess Mahiya, and she is mine.
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If somebody in the crowd spits at you, you've got to swallow it.
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Right before 'Brian's Song' there was a period when I was very despondent, broke, depressed; my first marriage was on the rocks. The role of Gale Sayers had been cast with Lou Gossett, and then he hurt himself playing basketball. I was called in to read for the role. I was their last choice, and I knew it.
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Every negative event contains within it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.
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Clean, quick, and easy as lying. We know how it ends practically before it starts. That’s why stories appeal to us. They give us the clarity and simplicity our real lives lack.
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People spend their careers trying to figure out what makes a hit single. But I learned a long time ago that you can't anticipate what people want, because it's always going to change.
