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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Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.
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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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I try to work on a film that my audiences would appreciate and enjoy their time in a theatre.
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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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Anytime I get to help the firefighters, I will. I'm real lucky to be in a position to help.
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In going to America one learns that poverty is not a necessary accompaniment to civilization.
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I never went to fashion school. I didn't know what a designer was. I knew I had something, but I didn't know what it was. And it could just have easily been nothing.
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Do send out a newsletter when you have a new book out or are going on tour. Also list relevant event dates and notifications of contests you are running.
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Every single thing I learned about marketing and building my business, I learned from my mom, and she had never been in the workforce. She just had great practical sense.
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And let us be frank, the security threats that emanate from our ports come from foreign cargo.
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I dislike all those cookie-cutter Nashville songs. You know the ones: about tight jeans and pick-up trucks.
