John 5 (John William Lowery) Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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God doesn't want us to merely sit around dreaming about things we can do and be. That's a good place to start, but a poor place to stop. God wants us to turn our dreams into action.
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Afrikaans culture is very right-wing and conservative, very proper, and you get this hidden underbelly, the zef side of Afrikaans which no one knows about.
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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.
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I try to be as ignorant about things as I can.
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I get cast as a lot of sympathetic characters. I'd like to play someone really unpleasant.
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I don't think good and evil are polarized.
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If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
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I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.
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I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.
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Excellence always sells.
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The patterns of big-band music are smooth and classical. It's got to be fresh. The brass section should crackle, like the sound of eggs being dropped into hot grease.
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Native trees are so important to our ecosystem.
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I don't have to be a size zero anymore. But I still want to feel and look good.
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I always say: To be well dressed you must be well naked.
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I hate when a guy brags... or he sweats.
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My family is heavily involved in the Marines and close-combat training, and I was raised doing Japanese sword training, so I've always been of the mentality that you have to be able to defend yourself.
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There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.
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The Amen of nature is always a flower.
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Women exist in my imagination. So they are necessarily a type of abstraction. Many women criticise me for this vision, but I explain to them it's to be expected, because I am a man.
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If anyone can figure out how to balance my celebrity and my dual careers in music and film, it's me. I don't feel frightened; I feel challenged.
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Because you have things like 'American Idol' and you've got radio stations that play music made entirely by computers, it's easy to forget there are bands with actual people playing actual instruments that rock.
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God is either everything, or He is nothing.
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All my life, I've really enjoyed music: making music, playing it, and recording it. It's such a relief and a joy to do what I do for a living.
