Johnny Rzeznik Quotes
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You can't be a first-world economy in the 21st century if you haven't laid the groundwork to seize the opportunities.
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I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not with any authority.
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My little circle of friends know how twisted my brain is. I'm constantly reading and people always think, 'Ah, we didn't know that about you', but that's part of my charm.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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Don't care what people say. Don't give a damn about their laws.
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Every designer needs a story. Mine is all about glamour because my family has been in the business of glamour for three generations. My grandfather Shamshuddin Khan started his embroidery and fabric-making business in the 1930s.
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I say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie.
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Hair wax is my go-to. When it comes to shampoo, I use whatever is at the rink.
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I don't want to write any more for the old Man-power instruments and am handicapped by the lack of adequate electrical instruments for which I now conceive my music.
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I work out and go to the gym, but I still enjoy my soul food and snacks. But I'm a pretty petite young woman, and I just do everything in moderation and make sure that I just keep everything together.
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Nothing can be as astounding as life. Except for writing. Yes, of course, except for writing, the sole consolation.
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Having principled men and women in office is how you protect yourself from tyranny, and that was something I learned from when I was 2, 3, 5 years old.
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If you're at an award ceremony, you're against your mates.
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Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
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Editing is not a part of the filmmaking process I've ever been privy to as an actress.
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As soon as there is life there is danger.
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It's not my fault that people don't know me. I'm going to speak my mind, no matter what the consequences are.
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I live in one of Judy Garland's houses. As a fan, I never much liked Judy Garland, but living here, I feel like I have come to know her. People have given me a few of her possessions, and my neighbors have told me things that I wish I didn't know.
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The power of nonviolence is not circumstance-specific. It is as applicable to the problems that confront us now, as to problems that confronted generations in the past. It is not a medicine or a solution so much as a healing process. It is the active spiritual immune system of humanity.
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Music, for me, is just about where you're at, and that's always changing.
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For Marx, 'pure' economic theory, that is economic theory which abstracts from a specific social structure, is impossible.
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I tap danced for ten years before I began to understand people don't make musicals anymore. All I wanted to do was be at MGM working for Arthur Freed or Gene Kelly or Vincent Minelli. Historical and geographical constraints made this impossible. Slowly but surely the pen became mightier than the double pick-up time step with shuffle.
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If you take pictures does that make you an art thief?
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Nobody likes to hear a f**king rock star talk about his problems...
