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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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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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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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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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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My first introduction to television, and really just the business in general, was working with David Lynch, with his incredibly open, creative mind that was not following any rules.
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If somebody says I'm a leader or notices the things I try to do to be a leader, it's the ultimate compliment.
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Species conversation is beyond a doubt an issue that truly matters to the American public.
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You look at women like Lena Dunham, you look at how women are kind of crafting their own space on the screen. I want to add to that.
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Life is itself an occupational hazard. Sometimes the things we love hurt us. Embracing and navigating around that contradiction is part of what it is to be alive.
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I love when things don't go to plan.
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Thou hast no sorrow in thy song, no winter in thy year.
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If you live for your children, they may be smitten down and leave you desolate, or, what is far worse, they may desert you and leave you worse than childless in a cold and unfeeling world.
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Neither fear nor self-interest can convert the soul. They may change the appearance, perhaps even the conduct, but never the object of supreme desire... Fear is the motive which constrains the slave; greed binds the selfish man, by which he is tempted when he is drawn away by his own lust and enticed (James 1:14). But neither fear nor self-interest is undefiled, nor can they convert the soul. Only charity can convert the soul, freeing it from unworthy motives.
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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.
