Joe Bonamassa Quotes
I dislike all those cookie-cutter Nashville songs. You know the ones: about tight jeans and pick-up trucks.
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I like buying clothes, especially as I get a tax-deductible allowance.
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During the late '20s my father left us. My mother was in a complete hole with no money, and we were evicted.
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The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.
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It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.
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I think that a lot of people would perceive my style as being intimidating. And although I don't want to intimidate kids, I am very demanding.
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My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.
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The bottom line is, when you're in the Senate, you have more of a voice in the beginning than a new House member.
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Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given quite a bit of thought to that.
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I like winning. There's also a certain joy in it. I feel fulfilled by it.
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My mum always liked poetry, and she had pictures on the wall, so there was this visual stuff around.
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Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.
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Coney Island was the centre of the world for me. I loved the rides, the hot dogs - I've never gotten over it.
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But I don't think we'll go there until we go back to the moon and develop a technology base for living and working and transporting ourselves through space.
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I want to reveal in a simple way the usual - and unusual - life of the city; the corporation workman, the busmen, policemen, the civil servants, the theatres, Moore Street and also, what occupies so large a place in Dublin's life, the literary and artistic.
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I always wanted to be a writer. Maybe, had I been brought up in another generation, I might have just gone into writing rather than medicine - which is not to say that I didn't also have a great attraction towards the idea of being a healer. Fortunately, I've been able to combine the two in ways I could never possibly have imagined.
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I've recorded 25 or 30 albums. I know that sometimes when you work with producers who are kinda dictators, it doesn't help you make a better record.
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To be 49 years old now and still be called The Kid, that's kind of special.
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When you look at where the Democratic field is going relative to foreign policy, they are increasingly moving away from a policy of pre-emptive self-defense that the president has adopted since September 11.
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I don't think there is another person in America that wants to tell this story as much as I do.
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I came up not understanding that a lot of people didn't start to hear music until they went to college or were turned on by an older brother or sister.
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I had a lot of resistance, and not just to fame. I was always conscious of not changing.
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I do not come bearing a party label on my sleeve - or a quick fix in my back pocket. I do not come with a rigid ideology in my heart - or a soul that tells me to go it alone. I do not come to uproot tradition - or to be imprisoned by it.
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Latins are predisposed to thinking about the past. Catholicism has a lot to do with it because Catholicism is a contemplation of the past, of symbols that are supposed to be eternally present.
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I dislike all those cookie-cutter Nashville songs. You know the ones: about tight jeans and pick-up trucks.
