Joe Perry (Anthony Joseph Perry) Quotes
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The world needs some help.
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I don't like to rate myself; others can do that.
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Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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Well, the crazy thing for me is I think out of anything that's happened in the last year, all the success, people always ask what do you guys do with the money? I don't think they realize we're not really making any money.
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I was a scapegoat. The media had to put responsibility on somebody, and I was chosen. They felt free to say that because someone was thin they were anorexic, which is ridiculous.
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The journalistic endeavor - at least theoretically - is grounded in objectivity. The goal is to get you to understand what happened, when and to whom.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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I don't do negative things.
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I drink tons of water. It always sounds like the lamest thing, but there's a reason you keep hearing this over and over again. It really works.
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You feel it in there, pacing your heart sometimes, and it has what's called a defibrillator. Should I suffer that arhythmia, it's generally sudden death. And the paddles that are internal shock you back and restore your rhythm to its normal and natural state.
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When I put magic into a book - whether it's a wizard or a crusty old werewolf - I'm asking a reader to swallow a huge leap that is counter to everything he or she knows. An extra big helping of reality makes that leap go down a lot easier.
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In the year 3000, everything will be instant.
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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
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Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist.
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Law enforcement officers are never 'off duty.' They are dedicated public servants who are sworn to protect public safety at any time and place that the peace is threatened. They need all the help that they can get.
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Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.
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Stevie Wonder and Diana Ross and the Jackson 5, that's what I grew up on.
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Having a place out of the city is a shortcut toward the mental reset I need.
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The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace.
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We know that appropriators will fight these cutbacks. But by eliminating earmarks, we can stop the horse trading that grows agency budgets.
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I need to be very hungry all the time. I need to be very hungry to write.
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For a long time he had been white smoke. He did not realize that until he left the hospital, because white smoke had no consciousness of itself. It faded into the white world of their bed sheets and walls; it was sucked away by the words of doctors who tried to talk to the invisible scattered smoke... They saw his outline but they did not realize it was hollow inside.
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I'm glad that I never ended up killing myself, though I came close more times than I would like to admit.
