Alexis Korner Quotes
The parallel development in American blues to the British movement has resulted in Johnny Winters.
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Yeah, I have animosity, a chip on my shoulder. But I love, too.
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I have a song about being in love. I have a song about being supportive. There's inspiring ones, and there's some that show a little bit more fun and daring. It really is a range of who I am.
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I'm probably a natural uncle. I can take the kids out and have fun with them and look after them, and I can be Mr. Popular. But actually having to do the grind? That stuff just doesn't appeal at all.
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They say I am a regulator and I think it is just an effort not to comply with the decree. I do not do anything except what the decree requires me to do.
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I am now in a position to choose roles. I did not have so many offers before 'Queen,' but now things have changed a lot.
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The first time I thought I should be an actor was in school. I thought, 'At least this is something for which I won't have to study.' But I've realised that an actor needs to be constantly unsure about what he's doing and about what's going on around him. The moment you think you've nailed it, you're dead.
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In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.
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You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.
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I am definitely a perfectionist, and I do like things a certain way. But as I have got older, I would say that I am a little bit less of a control freak.
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I don't believe we have defined health care reform very well in this country.
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God does arithmetic.
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Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
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It is no surprise that companies do not often respond to moral pressure alone. We need to hit them hard in their pocketbook and on their balance sheet. We need to show them that their stock prices will be affected if their actions encourage Iran's nuclear weapons ambitions.
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When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.
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When you take a shower in space, you have to press the water onto your body to clean yourself, and then you gotta vacuum it off.
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I think we need people with stronger ideals than John Kerry or Bill Clinton. I think we need people with more courage and vision.
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The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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My whole life I've had the fear that I was going to be abandoned.
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Idleness does drive me crazy, but I'd rather read or write than do anything just to work. A kind of respect has been instilled in me for acting: I love it too much to ever have a bad relationship with it.
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An army's bravest men are its cowards. The death which they would not meet at the hands of the enemy they will meet at the hands of their officers, with never a flinching.
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What you are about to read is not an aberration: it can happen in your local university too. The Big U, simply, was a few years ahead of the rest.
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I am a tremendous optimist for someone who has grown up amid the twilight of American competence.
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The parallel development in American blues to the British movement has resulted in Johnny Winters.
