Country Joe McDonald Quotes

And it's one, two, three What are we fighting for Don't ask me, I don't give a damn. Next stop is Viet Nam.

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• There's always the risk that there are unknown unknowns.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Always
  • Risk
  • Unknown

• I started to work in television for three or four years, in 1954. There was one channel of television, black and white. But it could be entertaining and educational. During the evening they showed important plays, opera or Shakespeare's tragedies.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Work
  • Important
  • Black

• There are some things that money can't buy: peace of mind, for starters, and lean muscle mass. Neither the Queen of England nor the founder of Microsoft can put in an order for either one.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • Mind
  • Money
  • Peace

• I'm not the type of guy to go so deep with the concept songs, but there's deep thought in everything. Maybe it's not just a repetitive hook telling you what the song is about - you have to use your brain a little bit.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Guy
  • Song
  • Brain

• The difference between Tinted Windows and Hanson shows is a lot of just repertoire. Hanson has been a band for years - we have a lot of songs to pull from and it's a different dynamic - a common kind of thread. With Tinted Windows - it's kind of a little like 'hey, we're this new band.'

  

  Taylor Hanson Hanson
  • Different
  • Band
  • New

• When you read a book, you are letting another person distract your thoughts and work your emotions. If they are adept, there's nothing better than turning off and getting lost.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Work
  • Book
  • Lost

• Talent survives and remains while beauty is diluted.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Beauty
  • Talent
  • While

• Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Life
  • Important
  • Family

• Death, only, renders hope futile.

  

  Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • Hope
  • Death
  • Futile

• I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.

  

  A. C. Benson
  • Read
  • Fiction
  • Newspaper

• Returns matter a lot. It's our capital.

  

  Abagail Johnson
  • Matter
  • Capital
  • Our

• I always put on M.A.C. Prep and Primer before anything.

  

  Yuna
  • Always
  • Anything
  • Before

• I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Look
  • Say
  • Misbehave

• Bobby Knight told me this: 'There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.' In other words a good offense wins.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Good
  • Words
  • Sports

• For better or for worse, I just have to be on tour for some portion of the year. But it's not easy, you know. It's not easy on the people you love, and I understand when people look at this life and say this isn't sustainable.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • People
  • Life
  • Know

• Every country in Europe needs immigrants for its economic survival.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Country
  • Survival
  • Europe

• Piano is like drudgery.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Like
  • Piano
  • Drudgery

• When the man governed by self-interest, the god of this world, does not renounce it but merely refines it by the use of reason and extends it beyond the constricting boundary of the present, he is represented (Luke XVI, 3-9) as one who, in his very person as servant, defrauds his master self- interest and wins from him sacrifices in behalf of 'duty.'

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • World
  • God
  • Present

• Earlier in my career, I needed to be the writer, casting director, set designer, leading man, and producer. I've been eliminating a lot of those jobs. I'm an executive producer right now. I still get to pick the best screenplays.

  

  Danny Meyer
  • Career

• There's something I love about how stark the contrast is between January and June in Sweden. In a way, I feel that time doesn't exist in LA. Sometimes I don't know if it's February or April or October, because you're always sitting outside on the same patio, and it's 70 degrees.

  

  Alexander Skarsgard
  • Time
  • April
  • June

• I tend to stay in character between scenes... to be rather serious on set, but here's why, and I think people will find it surprising. I'm one of the worst 'corpses' on a movie set, which means you can't keep a straight face. You start to get the giggles and you can't stop.

  

  Christian Bale
  • People
  • Why
  • Character

• A 'naughty pickle' is how I'd best describe myself. I think fun and laughter is the whole point of life.

  

  Celia Imrie
  • Fun
  • Laughter
  • Naughty

• And it's one, two, three What are we fighting for Don't ask me, I don't give a damn. Next stop is Viet Nam.

  

  Country Joe McDonald
  • Stop
  • Fighting
  • Vietnam