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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.'
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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.
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Talent survives and remains while beauty is diluted.
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Shakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings.
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Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships.
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We have an idea that the man should help pay for the child. But we don't have a law that says a man has to support any woman he gets pregnant. Why is that? Because she doesn't have the baby yet. But if we're going to say it's a human being, then he should be supporting her during pregnancy.
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Death, only, renders hope futile.
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Mo Yan is the Chinese equivalent of the Soviet Russian apparatchik writer Mikhail Sholokhov: a patsy of the regime.
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I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
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My parents had some problems of their own that put me in a position of having to deal with very grown-up stuff at a very young age. I needed some help with that, therapy-wise.
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Returns matter a lot. It's our capital.
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I always put on M.A.C. Prep and Primer before anything.
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I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.
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Always work hard, be honest, and be proud of who you are.
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I don't like speed. I would have made a terrible Futurist. Even when I did take drugs, I never liked amphetamines and much preferred the slow taffy-pull of time that you get with opiates.
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There's a lot of books that I've purchased simply because of the cover design. On the other hand, there's certain books that, even if I'm very curious about the content, I can't bring myself to buy if I really dislike the cover.
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I had a grandmother who was really strong, who doted on me, who wanted to make sure that I didn't go off the beaten path, although I did.
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The yoke a man creates for himself by wrong-doing will breed hate in the kindliest nature; . . .
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I would love to work with Billy Corgan but then he knows that… I dream of playing with Herbie Hancock but I think if it ever happened I would just break down and cry!
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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.
