John DiTeodoro, Jr (Johnny Dee) Quotes
I think the ability to make a living playing music was a huge relief from the pressures of having to choose between “reality” and what was looked at as “fantasy land”.
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There isn't any amount of money that could tempt me to promote something that I didn't believe in.
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The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.
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The vampires in the 'VAMPS' series judge each other as harshly as they judge humans, and basically, vampires don't get along very well. So you've got a culture that's from cradle to grave like the worst high school you've ever been in.
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I don't have business with any politicians.
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Most of the media... is positioning the merger with Compaq and the recent actions by Walter Hewlett and David Packard as a fight between the past and the future.
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I love the way soft white cheese such as ricotta or the creamier mascarpone reflect the milieu in which an animal has been raised.
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I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.
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Your focus should be on creating an environment where growth can occur and then letting nature take its course.
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I was never one of those surly teenagers who doesn't smile. My lovely godfather said it was always lovely to see me because I was the only teenager who smiled. And I was so in awe of him, I thought it was one of the best things anyone had ever said to me. So it made me want to live up to what he said.
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As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.
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A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.
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My dad's a Republican. My dad's my mentor. When I was 18 or whatever it was and I decided to register to vote. My dad's Republican, so that's what I decided to register as.
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He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.
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I loved wrestling in Philly. It was such an exciting time in my life. That really helped me grow and think differently. It was also just a lot of fun.
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We're very lucky, men, that there are these fabulous parts. Women - once you've done all the parts in Shakespeare, they start running out. So you can pick and choose and find something to energise you.
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President George Herbert Walker Bush ran as a strong conservative, ran to continue the third term of Ronald Reagan, continue the Ronald Reagan revolution. Then he raised taxes and in '92 ran as an establishment moderate - same candidate, two very different campaigns.
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I've never had anyone put on a puppet show to convince me of anything. And I've done a lot of stuff. I don't know that I would put the puppets on when I was pitching a show. This was the head of the studio putting a puppet show on. And I'll tell you, he wasn't bad.
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I think that the hardest thing about working with young people in foster care who've been through this kind of neglect and abuse is really to convince them that they are worthy of being loved. And I think because often they don't feel worthy of it, that's why they push people away.
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For the nation to live, the tribe must die.
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Private Capitalism makes a steam engine; State Capitalism makes pyramids.'
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One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity.
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David Jacobs is a great influence on my life, has taught me so much about so many things.
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More and more people work on Sundays as a consequence of the competitiveness imposed by a consumer society.
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I think the ability to make a living playing music was a huge relief from the pressures of having to choose between “reality” and what was looked at as “fantasy land”.
