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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Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.
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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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My father was a construction worker most of his life. My mother, when she came from Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, to the United States, never had a chance to go to college either and became a clerical worker. But they did nothing but build this country.
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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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Self-awareness is a character trait that's horrible to have if you're a performer. I think that a lot of these performers that we see get up on stage and play music, there's a sense of them truly not caring how they're coming across. They are just themselves. I look up to a lot of people who are like that.
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I would like to especially acknowledge my home community of Calgary, and the people of central Alberta who made my dream of freedom a reality.
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For the way loneliness is worse when you return to it after a reprieve—like the soul’s version of putting on a wet bathing suit, clammy and miserable.
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My impression, is that prayer is one of the most basic forms of magic. That it's harnessing the powers of your mind.
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Television has to reflect back to you your own sense of security. It also has to mirror your sense of your own decency and your own limitations.
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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.
