Joe Bonamassa Quotes
My goal for 'Black Rock' was pretty simple: I wanted to make the feel-good record of the summer.
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Things are simple, it is us human beings that make it difficult.
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It's time for some common sense from federal agencies.
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As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book.
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I realized that I'm a soft person. I think I'm sensitive. I wanted very much to be tough and I think movie stars have a certain kind of resilience and toughness to them, but I'm quite a sensitive young lady in some respects.
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Usually people are questioning my athleticism more than my femininity!
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India made a big mistake by signing up to TRIPS. With a population of 1.3 billion, India can't afford a monopoly in healthcare. Monopolies lead to higher prices and we can't allow them in a country like India with so much poverty and misery. It was like signing our own death warrant.
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My friends tease me about the fact that if someone seems bad or shady or like they have a secret, I find them incredibly interesting.
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Publicity's a cancer. It eats out a man - till there's nothing but a shell left.
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Let's means-test benefits - let's means-test Social Security and Medicare and make the rich pay more for these benefits.
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You walk on a set, and you have no idea - that's why I don't storyboard. It's all possible.
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I didn't ever plan to be a producer, and I didn't really know what I was getting myself into.
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London is my home. I miss my family so much; it's hard being away. And I miss salt and vinegar crisps. And Marmite. And good fudge. Oh my God. Clotted cream fudge.
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I never loved another person the way I loved myself.
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My family supported me before any of this crazy notion of moving out to Hollywood and staking my claim. That support has never waned.
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I actually think it's against the rules at Vox Media to work there if you've never dropped an iPhone.
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A single element in transactional mode can never be analysed to calculate either loss or presumptive loss. The losses or gains of all elements in the transaction need to be analysed.
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It's really cool when a guy tips 20 per cent quickly and effortlessly so that when the check comes, he opens it and signs his name and done.
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I'm a big believer in,'If anyone can understand my politics, I've failed.' If you can get a sense of which side of the fence I'm on, then I'm not doing a service. I'm preaching, and that's not my job.
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When you live in America, it's kind of insular - the news coverage that you get - unless you're really smart about it and find more international news coverage.
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Black women are supposed to be 'strong,' but the burden of carrying our race and carrying our families adds the pressure.
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To tell you the truth, if you're looking at rising pretty high, then you need to find a way of taking care of these problems and not taking time off. At the end of the day, it is a very tough competition. And in a very tough competition, if you just take breaks, then it's going to become much, much more difficult.
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Fame came quickly. I was only 19 when I secured my initial recording contract and my first two hit records - 'Are 'Friends' Electric?' and 'Cars' - were number ones.
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Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive.
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My goal for 'Black Rock' was pretty simple: I wanted to make the feel-good record of the summer.
