John Henry Bonham Quotes
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It's those damn critics again.
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I always played to win.
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I did a lot of little girl groups here and there just to get more comfortable on stage. When you're in girl groups, it's a lot different because if you mess up, there's someone on stage to back you up, and finally I got to a point where I knew I could do it on my own.
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I think if you talk to my colleagues, I was less than a fearsome individual.
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Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.
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In L.A., unless you've just won an Oscar or you're Mr. Studio Head, no one talks to you. Even at parties.
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What bothers me, I guess, is when I get these messages from girls on Twitter, and they're like, 'God, you're my idol, I really admire you.' It's like, 'Admire me for what? What have I done?' It's not that being in a Burberry campaign, or walking in a Chanel show is nothing. It's just... I know I can do more.
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We usually never got out of there before four or five o'clock in the morning. Every morning. So it was rough.
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If you force legislators to balance, at the end of the day, if it has to be balanced, then they step up and they become legislators and can find out where to cut.
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In politics stupidity is not a handicap.
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I established a certain standard of behavior, that, during my playing, there must be no talking.
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Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
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I pick and choose my battles, but I overthink everything because I have to think about everything.
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I always laugh a lot when I see the dramas that I end up doing. I see myself behaving very seriously and I'm like, 'What is this?'
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However old-fashioned and right-wing this may sound, the American genius for language lies in understatement, in saying things simply, pointedly and quickly, and in making new and clean and swift what otherwise might be ponderous, round and slow.
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It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.
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I am able to compete not because my labour is cheap, but because I can use technology better than others.
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I was a ravenous child. I'm a ravenous adult. I love to eat.
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Whatever you do for the sole purpose of having others admire you, your efforts will most likely be in vain.
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Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.
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District of Columbia welfare. The welfare work of the District of Columbia is administered by several different boards dealing with charities and various correctional efforts. It would be an improvement if this work were consolidated and placed under the direction of a single commission.
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The United States Jewish population has made many vital contributions in all areas of our society in such ways as helping to develop the cultural, scientific, political and economic life of our country.
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I'm not afraid of the Canadian tuxedo.
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Mistreating your drum set is just one step below child abuse
