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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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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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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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'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 feel that if you shelter your kids from everything, one day they are going to be out in the world on their own, and they are going to have to figure it out. You can't give them a test if you never taught them anything that's on the test. They're going to fail.
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With acting, I've always gotten by in life acting in situations. I'm a small person. I didn't have a chance to be a bully. But I could always act myself out of tough situations.
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I don't shoot movies quickly because I get a lot of coverage and a lot of angles, so we have all the pieces in the editing. I do a lot of takes, but it's because I'm looking for something.
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If boomers were always looking to shock, millennials are eager to share.
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How it is we have so much information, but know so little?
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I learned from an early age that my heritage, my love for people, and my desire to be a vehicle that can be used through my voice, that my expressions and actions can transport a person to experience a scene from the past, present and future.
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I kind of feel, in a way, all of us will forever be asking those questions of ourselves: Who am I and how do I fit in in the world and what is all this about? Because those aren't really... there are no answers to those questions, in a sense.
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My friends started having children after college, while I was pursuing this crazy acting career and living hand to mouth. Plus, all my boyfriends were artists struggling to make a living. Having kids didn't make any sense - why would I take on more of a financial burden when I couldn't even afford a dog?
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I dislike all those cookie-cutter Nashville songs. You know the ones: about tight jeans and pick-up trucks.
