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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As someone who started in the digital background, it's an easier, better, faster platform to bounce off of. You already have so much momentum, and you already have the experience. You're already comfortable being in front of the camera.
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People say they are inventing electric cars. Well, where is the electricity coming from? Flowers? Maybe someday. But what is available now is oil and gas.
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I was motivated to write about violence because I believe it's not unusual. I see it as just a part of life, and I think we get in trouble when we separate people who've experienced it from those who haven't.
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I love accents, I love listening to people talk, I like to try to emulate it as accurately as I can.
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I think it's important to be flexible and free, and you can't be free and spontaneous if you don't know what you're doing.
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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.
