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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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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Tel Aviv is a dynamic international city with a lot of smart people, great fashion and food. I've met a lot of amazing people and there's this great energy everywhere.
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I think people turn to poetry more often than they think they do, or encounter it in more ways than they think that they do. I think we forget the places that we encounter it, say, in songs or in other little bits and pieces of things that we may have remembered from childhood.
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Most people are fascinated to see someone play an instrument in an inspired way. We are moved by witnessing musical brilliance, and it was this notion that led me to purchase the GuitarTV domain 10 years ago.
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Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.
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Deadly nightshade is the only plant I have ever been able to get to grow for me.
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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.
