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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The arts give kids the building blocks with which to then play.
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To meet the expectations of the majority of our people, and to open up new vistas of economic opportunity so that the aspirations of Nigerians can stand a fair chance of being fulfilled in a lifetime, there must be a truly committed leadership in a democratic Nigeria.
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Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
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I'm not really a management-type person. It doesn't suit my personality to be bossing people around.
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A solitary ascetic is a symbol of the most cowardly egotism; a hermit who flees from his brothers instead of helping them to carry the burden of life, to work for others, and to put their shoulders to the wheel of social life, is a coward who hides himself when the battle is on, and goes to sleep drunk on an opiate.
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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.
