Kip Winger Quotes
The songs were really complicated. I used to meet people in bar bands who were trying to play our songs and they were really struggling with it. Technically it was really difficult stuff.
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I don't care to be remembered as the man who scored six touchdowns in a game. I want to be remembered as a winner in life.
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I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
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Anytime you do something in this arena, whether it's public records or ethics, it's not like throwing a stone in a quiet pond. It's like throwing a boulder.
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The problem with rich lists is... it is impossible to know what someone is worth until they have died and you have sold it.
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One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality.
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I have a great office.
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You have to respect your audience. Without them, you're essentially standing alone, singing to yourself.
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Y'all have no idea how many times I say, 'Yes, ma'am.'
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What I want to do is tell stories about normal people in the American suburbs. I don't write the book where it's a conspiracy reaching the prime minister; I don't write the book with the big serial killer who lops off heads. My setting is a very placid pool of suburbia, family life. And within that I can make pretty big splashes.
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I have me. I have God. I have my son. Everything else is extra.
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I don't drink coffee.
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If I get married again, I want a guy there with a drum to do rimshots during the vows.
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During my adolescence, our family dwelt in rural Alaska. We were dirt poor, Depression-era poor. Tarpaper shack and kerosene lamps. In those days I read because that's all I had. I wrote because that's all I had.
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I had always been feeling uncomfortable in my mind about giving advice to others and not acting upon it myself.
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The National Surveillance State doesn't want anyone to be able to communicate without the authorities being able to monitor that communication.
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A will finds a way.
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Our growing, robust economy is able to provide the average American citizen access to the best social program there is - a steady job.
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Every industry has slack times, and everyone has bad days at work.
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I would argue that television and particularly the BBC were instrumental in puffing up the Royal Family to a level where they were inflated out of all, all proportion to their relevance on the national scene.
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When you're in 45 markets, you take it on the chin here and there.
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Even if you aren't a believer, there are incredible stories in the 'good book' that I guarantee you will keep you glued to the page. The Bible is no less a part of our cultural heritage than Shakespeare is - and by the way, Shakespeare's plays are absolutely loaded with Biblical references.
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It is worthwhile for anyone to have behind him a few generations of honest, hard-working ancestry.
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The songs were really complicated. I used to meet people in bar bands who were trying to play our songs and they were really struggling with it. Technically it was really difficult stuff.
