Joe Perry (Anthony Joseph Perry) Quotes
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Yes, I can speak a bit and I can read and write in Russian. I learned it from my grandmother who raised me with all the Russian fairytales.
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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Gut feeling is all about the experiences that you have had in your life. It is about being in difficult scenarios, knowing what worked, what did not work, and then taking a decision.
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Some days the competition would beat me and I'd go home thinking awful thoughts, want to hide under the bed, depressed. But of course, in the news business, when you're working a daily news broadcast, you get your victories and defeats every day.
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I love the quality of TIDAL. I appreciate what they're trying to do and what they're trying to accomplish.
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I inherited some Chanel pieces from my mother. I've worn Prada - absolutely. Wonderful designers are inspiring. I also love designers not known. I love a lot of vintage pieces. I am pretty minimal, pretty classic.
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A rap dude has his rap persona, his hyper version of himself. Do you know Method Man's real name? Or Elton John, Marylin Monroe? You make up this character. That's kind of what we have done with Die Antwoord, playing with characters.
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Sometimes in someone's gestures you can notice how a parent is somehow inhabiting that person without there being any awareness of that. Sometimes you can look at your hand and see your father.
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To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.
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In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.
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There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.
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I don't like to Google myself. I try and avoid it whenever I can.
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You can't say somebody is a bust if they're making plays and running to the ball.
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At school I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking. But the girls on TV looked similar to me. I would say to my mum, 'The girls at school are teasing me, but I look like those girls on TV.'
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Yeah, I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times.
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As far as money goes, there's a saying in Denmark: 'Your last suit doesn't have any pockets.' You can't take it with you. You can make all the money you want, but who cares?
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There's nothing funnier than the human animal.
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The United States has grown into a remarkable nation specifically because of our independent spirit and free market.
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I would say for every successful black woman in America or in the world, really, it's difficult to be the head of the household, financially. It is for the man in your life. It can be very hard for them. And there's a delicate balance. I'm not quite sure I know what that balance is just yet.
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I played baseball up until my freshman year of high school. That was my main sport. I played third base.
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Lion sounds that have not grown from the mouse may exude naked power... but cannot convey any wisdom or understanding... The initial steps on the path to courageous speech then are the first tentative steps into the parts of us that cannot speak.
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I love classical music; I love the way it's worked... all those chord sequences so I often use that sort of effect in my solos.
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Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.
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I've come to realize that you live on through recordings; they're like a musical diary, a window into somebody's soul.