Rick Danko Quotes

I saw Ronnie Hawkins play near my hometown, Port Dover, Ontario, and I saw him play there on New Year's Eve and the following spring I booked myself to be his opening act on maybe five shows, and he hired me after the first night.

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• My boy cousins used to sit my older brother and me down and take us through a film-studies course. It included 'Tremors', 'The Goonies', and, of course, 'Star Wars'. That was when it began: sitting cross-legged watching as the opening crawl goes up the screen.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Film
  • Studies
  • Opening

• There's a market for mysteries for adults. That feeling of opening a book and delving inside and not coming out until you've closed the book.

  

  Kate Morton
  • Book
  • Feeling
  • You

• I even sang once at the opening of a supermarket. You name it, I've done it.

  

  Imelda May
  • Done
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  • Opening

• I don't go on tour tours - I just go randomly to cities to do shows if I have an opening in my schedule.

  

  Harland Williams
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• I do have an obligation to make sure that I am following some of the rules. I can't simply ignore laws that are out there.

  

  Barack Obama
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• If only opening a Vitamin Water could be classified as working out.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Water
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  • Vitamins

• Finally, if nothing can be truly asserted, even the following claim would be false, the claim that there is no true assertion.

  

  Aristotle
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• I keep following this sort of hidden river of my life, you know, whatever the topic or impulse which comes, I follow it along trustingly. And I don't have any sense of its coming to a kind of crescendo, or of its petering out either. It is just going steadily along.

  

  William Stafford
  • Kind
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• ...following Mrs. Roosevelt in search of irrationality was like following a burning fuse in search of an explosive.

  

  William Francis Buckley
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  • Irrationality

• Behind all seen things lies something vaster; everything is but a path, a portal or a window opening on something other than iteself.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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• If I go out with a jacket and a pair of trousers that my wife doesn't like, you can bet your ass it ain't in my wardrobe the following day. I say that it gets lost in the sky.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
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• The truth has a strange way of following you, of coming up to you and making you listen to what it has to say.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Way
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  • Following

• Refrain from following the example of those whose craving is for attention, not their own improvement.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Attention
  • Improvement
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• I'm always open to suggestions. I'm open to opportunities. Whether I take them or not, I don't know. And I would only take them if I weren't training, if I didn't have a fight scheduled. I really want to keep my focus on fighting. That's where all these doors are opening up from anyways. I don't want to lose sight of that. I love fighting.

  

  Holly Holm
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• To be able to say that "if we change our point of view in the following way ... things are simpler" is always a gain.

  

  John Tukey
  • Way
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• The Pleiadians are opening an energetic timeline for the very first time in any seminar, allowing you to enter the timeline where all experience occurs, because everything exists in one moment.

  

  Christine McCormick Day
  • Moments
  • Firsts
  • Opening

• And one wild Shakespeare, following Nature's lights, Is worth whole planets, filled with Stagyrites.

  

  Thomas More
  • Light
  • Whole
  • Planets

• You find that the things you let go of while following Jesus were the things that were going to destroy you in the end.

  

  Francis Chan
  • Jesus
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• Let our position be absolutely clear: An attempt by any outside force to gain control of the Persian Gulf region will be regarded as an assault on the vital interests of the United States of America, and such an assault will be repelled by any means necessary, including military force.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Control
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  • Persian Gulf region

• How do I act so well? What I do is I pretend to be the person I'm portraying in the film or play.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Play
  • Film
  • Act

• Ultimately, you're left with the people you love and who love you- everything else fades into oblivion.

  

  Nicole Kidman
  • People
  • Love You
  • Oblivion

• Yes, I did have to struggle very hard to get this the vote on the Iraq war through, but the reason I did it was because I thought it was the right thing to do. I didn't take this on myself... just because I thought, 'Let's give myself a really hard time for a couple of years!'

  

  Tony Blair
  • War
  • Reason
  • Couple

• I saw Ronnie Hawkins play near my hometown, Port Dover, Ontario, and I saw him play there on New Year's Eve and the following spring I booked myself to be his opening act on maybe five shows, and he hired me after the first night.

  

  Rick Danko
  • Following
  • Opening
  • Booked