Joe Perry (Anthony Joseph Perry) Quotes
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I don't keep people around me that aren't family. You don't get to stay. Unless you're eating at the table with us, you're not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.
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A reciprocal of a fraction is found by flipping it upside down. If you want the reciprocal of a mixed number or a whole number, just convert it to an improper fraction, and then flip it!
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I can enjoy anywhere, and I can leave it. Life is about moving on.
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If you want to do stuff, you have to be able to handle controversy.
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I get breakfast when everyone else is on their lunch break. I usually go to Dimes, which is a short walk from my apartment. Usually, I'll have chia pudding or an acai bowl and toast and sausage.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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My mom, she is the most unbelievable mom that you could ever have in your entire life and she's always with me on everything. The most I've ever been away from her is two days. I love her more than anybody could ever know.
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I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.
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If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.
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It would have been fun to have played Tim Robbins' role in Bull Durham.
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We need to have women in more powerful positions that are making decisions, so when that 10-year-old girl is looking up and wondering, 'What can I do and what do I want to be when I get older?' She has the opportunity to do and be whatever she wants.
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Intellectuals try to keep going. But their situation is very difficult. Those who have had the courage to voice their opposition have often paid a very high price.
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An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they cannot derive from a national or a global economy controlled by people who, by principle, have no local commitment.
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As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.
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I love being on stage or in front of the camera. My work brings me a lot of joy. It helps me figure out who I am. I'm really lucky that I get to make a living at acting.
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I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.
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It's very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That's my rule.
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You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.
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My golf game is lacking big time.
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I wouldn't say that I'm actually trying to cause chills in the audience, but certainly my goal is to, at the very least, effect a physiological response - at the most, to effect some sort of state change, ideally, in the audience.
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What is the world at its best but a little round field of the moving pictures with two walking together in it?
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I felt a sort of energy flow through me that I had never felt before — as if I was a part of something greater than myself
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I feel like we haven't dealt with the ghosts of America's past, and the way to deal with it is to confront it, so every time people see me, I want them to be reminded and to confront that ghost.
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I think one of the most valuable things Aerosmith has is the energy we produce when we all play together.
