Johnny Hallyday (Jean-Philippe Léo Smet) Quotes
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You won't really get a lot of the mainstream, lovey-dovey side because that wasn't a part of my life in the beginning.
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It was sort of just a family sport. My mom and dad were pretty keen golfers when I was young and so were my grandparents, and I just sort of tagged along with them.
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One of the saddest things about publishing is how quickly it ages what it touches. The frenzy involved in getting books on shelves, and in putting the word out that they're there, moves at a speed that is not the speed of writing, let alone of reading.
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All too often the Democratic Party has taken the black vote for granted, and all too often the Republican Party has written it off.
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I've got a new rule. It'll be rule No. 312. If it's three days before a campaign, don't believe anything new you hear about anybody.
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I am not fit for this office and should never have been here.
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Mel H. Buffalo, an advisor to the Samson Cree band in Hobbema, Alberta, reported that 'every Indian person I've spoken to who attended these schools has a story of mental, physical or sexual abuse to relate.'
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My problem was that I felt ashamed of feeling sad or angry. Now, I don't hide my vulnerability in my lyrics. There's no way I was going to get raped and not get something out of it. I learned about power and hope and forgiveness. I like who I am now and I wouldn't be who I am if that hadn't happened.
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Arguments are like eels: however logical, they may slip from the minds weak grasp unless fixed there by imagery and style.
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I have gotten tubes of Chapstick from every damn corner of the country.
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Commerce seems to be covering every aspect of our lives now. Which me, because I'm a romantic, is sad for me to say.
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For everyday diners in Manhattan, cracking the waiting list at Nobu is said to be harder than getting courtside tickets for the Knicks.
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Waiting tables has never paid my bills, a fact which I prefer to hide from my colleagues with deep sighs about the price of just about everything.
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As time passed on, got to hear some players who were straight up funky, not just jazz. Nat Adderley, for instance - he's a funky trumpet player, so he was my man.
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Money has stepped to the forefront of everything.
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And there's a visceral fun in watching Team America and making it, like taking a puppet and throwing it against the wall. Because it's not CG, there's something funny about it.
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WrestleMania is amazing.
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I grew up feeling people didn't look at skin color.
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Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.
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What I found fascinating was just how quickly the best of the young Negro League players were drafted into the major leagues once Branch Rickey broke the color line by hiring Jackie Robinson. It was clear that all of the major league owners already knew the talents of the black ballplayers that they had refused to let into their league.
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People shouldn't come expecting to see the Muppets because they are not here. This is something else.
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I use dull colors in my drawings because I started out using a root beer base, because it seemed like an interesting idea, and when it turned out that it worked quite well as an ink, I started using other colors that would complement it, like grays from Higgins black writing ink and, more recently, Dr. P.H. Martin's olive green and vermilion.
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The only ultimate disaster that can befall us is to feel ourselves at home on this earth.
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I am a rocker and a rocker must live like a lone wolf.
