Rick Danko Quotes

As time goes on we get closer to that American Dream of there being a pie cut up and shared. Usually greed and selfishness prevent that and there is always one bad apple in every barrel.

Rick Danko

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• Before my son was born, I use to tell people that I was looking forward to no longer being the star of my own movie; then Harry came along, and it was like, 'Whoa, I'm really not!'

  

  Jack Davenport
  • People
  • Movie
  • Star

• I would ask my mother to show me how to walk - and she did show me. That's why I think it's funny when people say, 'Did so-and-so teach you how to walk?' And I always say, 'You must be talking about my mother, because it was my mother who taught me how to walk.'

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • People
  • Why
  • She

• I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Girl
  • Like
  • Serious

• As a writer, I've always felt it's my job to be extremely careful when writing about victims, especially women.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Writing
  • Women
  • Job

• I'm going to go do a Netflix series. It's straight-to-series, 10 episodes, probably go for three seasons. I'm going to direct the pilot and hopefully the last episode of the first season. The show is 'Seven Seconds.'

  

  Gavin O'Connor
  • Three
  • Season
  • Seasons

• You can't fight the fact that Detroit is a de-industrializing market and it isn't facing dramatic, positive transformation.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Positive
  • Transformation

• Send a bouquet of your face with the morning breeze.

  

  Hafez
  • Morning
  • Face
  • Bouquet

• I never lose touch. If you let me tell it, I'll tell you I never got my just due and my respect for being one of the greats in hip-hop, and because of that, the fire never burned out. There's more and more of a need for me to succeed or take the legacy a step further, and that's what it is.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Respect
  • Fire
  • Legacy

• The vast majority of Malaysians are sensible people; they're moderates, they want peace, they want harmonious race relations at home. They look for national unity.

  

  Najib Razak
  • People
  • Home
  • Peace

• I learned long ago that the most effective way to compete is to play your own game, and I've been competing with men my whole life.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Life
  • Men
  • Long

• Country was about character. Country's changed because of monsters like Clear Channel who bought up all the stations and sliced them up into formats. Our demographic is now the soccer mom.

  

  Gary Allan
  • Up
  • Country
  • Character

• Since age twelve, I've felt like I'm someone else,'cause I hung my original self from the top bunk with a belt.

  

  Eminem
  • Age

• What other people think of how I play and how I go about things really isn't something I worry about.

  

  Colin Kaepernick
  • People
  • Worry

• It is clear from all these data that the interests of teenagers are not focused around studies, and that scholastic achievement is at most of minor importance in giving status or prestige to an adolescent in the eyes of other adolescents.

  

  James S. Coleman
  • Giving
  • Eyes
  • Achievement

• Ethnic divisions can definitely be exacerbated by a lack of natural resources, but those tensions become violent when people manipulate them for their own political gain.

  

  Dinaw Mengestu
  • People
  • Political

• We're in a post-conceptual era where it's really the artist's idea and vision that are prized rather than the ability to master the crafts that support the work. Today, our understanding of an artist is closer to a philosopher than to a craftsman.

  

  Jeffrey Deitch
  • Work
  • Today
  • Support

• I was very unfamiliar with YouTube; I thought it was the place for dog and cat videos.

  

  Lindsey Stirling
  • Dog
  • Cat

• If you feel like you're getting into a rut with a song, a night off usually fixes it.

  

  Levon Helm
  • Song
  • Night

• He who lives in despair / takes and gives in vain.

  

  Hadewijch

• Under all that we think, lives all we believe, like the ultimate veil of our spirits.

  

  Antonio Machado
  • Believe
  • Spirits
  • Veil

• God is waiting and anxious to pour out blessings, and glory, and honor, and exaltation upon his people, far more than we have ever received, and far more than we are capable of receiving; and the only reason we have not received it long ago is because there was no place found for it.

  

  Erastus Snow
  • Reason
  • Honor
  • Glory

• When I was a student looking at Leonardo DaVinci and all those guys - Italian, Dutch, or whatever - it's incredible how each piece of the painting fits to the main theme that they want to express.

  

  Emir Kusturica
  • Painting
  • Italian

• We did everything we could to save my legs, and it just came to a point where if we didn't amputate my legs, I wouldn't survive. In that situation, you kind of go into survival mode, and you find strength.

  

  Amy Purdy
  • Survival

• As time goes on we get closer to that American Dream of there being a pie cut up and shared. Usually greed and selfishness prevent that and there is always one bad apple in every barrel.

  

  Rick Danko
  • American
  • Dream
  • Selfishness