Joe Bonamassa Quotes
I learned that if I put my mind to something vocally, I can pull it off. You just have to get your head-space right.
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I'm too self-serious for a comedy.
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The performance of international institutions will be symptomatic of the domestic political priorities of influential member states. International institutions don't really have a life and a mind of their own.
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I loved theatre and did magic, too, but I was never the best at it - there was never a teacher saying, 'You're great, you have to make this your career!' I was good at science and math. I figured I'd go into science and become a dentist.
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When you're young and queer and closeted, you can end up in this place where you regard your straight peers as the enemy.
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Job-wise, I did have a moment of panic that I should have been a doctor a few years ago, but I hate when people vomit.
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How movies are financed, it's a world market now... I feel like, you know, the independent film way of working is something that was in my bones. It's like being a part of a punk band, but no one's singing punk rock anymore. Only a few bands are able to play, and Woody Allen is one of them.
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When I decide I want something, I go in like an Exocet missile.
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Thinking about your role will automatically get you in the frame of mind to get your strategy and game plan right before you step onto that field.
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Working with Jack Albertson was one of my great joys.
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People are different. People choose different criteria. But if there is a better way among many alternatives, I want to encourage that way by making it comfortable. So that's what I've tried to do.
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Ultimately, our goal was to be a band and be recognized for our songs and making records. And I think that has been the case.
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Laughter is regional: a smile extends over the whole face.
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If there's 'game' in the title, I'm there! Ready to play!
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Some people think that welfare reform should have hurt Bill Clinton with black voters.
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All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don't subscribe to any of that. It's all just music. I mean, the heavy metal from the Seventies sounds nothing like the stuff from the Eighties, and that sounds nothing like the stuff from the Nineties. Who's to say what is and isn't a certain type of music?
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Pressure is there with any release of mine. It's more my own, as I need to surpass my own expectations.
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It has long been apparent that many people in the media don't believe you're competent to make your own decisions.
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Only a dynamic and strategically-minded America, together with a unifying Europe, can jointly promote a larger and more vital West, one capable of acting as a responsible partner to the rising and increasingly assertive East.
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A lot of people would write to me long stories from their lives, and I felt they were thinking of me as some sort of treasure chest to keep their secrets. I felt like sometimes they would tell me stories they wouldn't tell anybody else in the whole world. And I loved these stories.
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Guacamole is really healthy. It's really good for your skin.
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What is more comforting to the terrorists around the world: the failure to pass the 9/11 legislation because we lacked a majority of the majority,' or putting aside partisan politics to enact tough new legislation with America's security foremost in mind?
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If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.
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Tolerance is you saying something crazy and me smiling and saying, 'That's nice.'
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I learned that if I put my mind to something vocally, I can pull it off. You just have to get your head-space right.
