John Henry Bonham Quotes
Most of it was nuts, but I was determined to be a drummer as soon as I left school.
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It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it. The extent and complexity of the problem does not matter was much as does the willingness to solve it.
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I went through a training camp; I worked extremely hard. I prepared for UFC 200. This was the big one. This one meant everything to me.
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Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality. It's part of the sizzle.
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I am always locked in my design studio.
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A lot of my work is about equalizing things and kind of destroying any barrier between what's high and low, or what's deep or what's shallow, complex or simple. I hope I'm ever-changing.
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Being evil is easy.
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Writing for children hadn't occurred to me when I was younger, but nine years of teaching in the upper elementary grades had given me a deep appreciation of the gifts and graces that are specific to individuals with 10 or 11 years of experience as human beings.
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Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.
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I believe honor thy mother and father is not just a good commandment to live by, it is good public policy to govern by. That is why I feel so strongly about Medicare.
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If I got hit by a truck, I would want to go to hospital, but if something is bothering me I will see my naturopath.
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It is a debt we owe to the purity of our religion to show that it is at variance with that law which warrants slavery.
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In Shakespeare, unique individuals repudiate the stereotypes demanded by the structure of the play: Shylock commands our sympathy, Barnardine refuses to be hanged. Individuals trump the category.
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My mother was madly adventurous. My father was an actor - he worked with Gielgud - and my mother came from a very wealthy family. She definitely wasn't meant to marry an actor, but she eloped with him one lunch-time.
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To dissociate politicians from capitalists is slightly disingenuous, to put it mildly. U.S. lawmakers are competitive and auction themselves to the highest bidder via the lobby system.
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Rather than waiting to restore fiscal responsibility after we pass legislation, we must work to ensure we remain committed to it as we draft legislation.
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We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.
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My mother is Italian and my dad's Irish. In my family, we're expressive. Nobody holds back.
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There are many women with children under five who want to work and who lack affordable, high-quality child care.
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In real danger sometimes even a democracy can really keep a secret.
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It is hard for a black man to just be himself. We spend so much time in defense of something that is indefensible because there is nothing to defend.
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Sexual signals can be received without being consciously sent.
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When you're young, it's all about the society of school and being cool, but they don't understand that somebody can be different and live a different lifestyle and still be a regular person. I was the same way when I was a kid.
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Most of it was nuts, but I was determined to be a drummer as soon as I left school.
