J. D. Souther Quotes
I had a jazz trio, a rock n' roll band, and I played drums in junior high, high school, college, big bands, and I played timpani in the symphony. I am a drummer. It's the one instrument I actually play pretty well. It's just hard to carry on your back.
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Let me clarify it through the national news agency that I am not joining Aam Aadmi Party. There has been reports that I will be officially joining AAP, but I can assure you that nothing of that sort is happening.
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In 1949 - my father stayed on in Shanghai after the war. But in 1949, the Communists took over the whole of China, and in fact, my father was caught by the Communists in Shanghai. And he was there for about a year until he was finally able to get out.
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My dad is a comedian, entertainer, you know. He always likes to make people laugh. With me, it just depends on what mood I'm in. You get what you get.
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The cast of 'Lemonade Mouth' was picked so perfectly. A lot of people see us as a band on camera, but not a lot of people know that Lemonade Mouth was a band off-camera, too.
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Around 1960, I moved back to Europe, attracted by the newly founded European Organization for Nuclear Research where, for the first time, the idea of a joint European effort in a field of pure science was to be tried in practice.
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Like most ghetto kids I knew it was important to be 'somebody' so I became a good soccer player, because excelling at a sport seemed to make you special.
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When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
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Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.
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I normally don't endorse in Democratic primaries.
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The best people to provide valuable information about any society are the children of that society who belong to its culture and are part of its collective conscience.
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Juilliard definitely emphasizes the theater. They don't train - at all really - for film acting. It's mostly process-oriented, pretty much for the stage.
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There are a lot of countries, oil-producing countries, that aren't very democratic, but supported by the United States. That's odd.
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I've played a lot of elegance and refinement, so to do something really down and dirty is a great attraction.
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My books cover many aspects of daily life through which your children will recognize their own relationships in their families and communities.
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I have a cousin who is a spiritual advisor for Native veterans in Canada, so I'm very familiar with the history of Natives in the military. And growing up as an American Indian myself, the story of Ira Hayes is one that is often told.
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I haven't gone to college yet and I intend to in a few years.
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After the first exams, I switched to the Faculty of Philosophy and studied Zoology in Munich and Vienna.
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The expansion and sophistication of transnational crime represents one of the most dangerous threats we confront in the next millennium.
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I'm lucky, always hopeful... I love my life.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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I felt like people only knew me as a singer who dated pretty girls.
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Democrats and Republicans have been very keen to make home ownership almost a national purpose.
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Memory is the first casualty of middle age, if I remember correctly.
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I had a jazz trio, a rock n' roll band, and I played drums in junior high, high school, college, big bands, and I played timpani in the symphony. I am a drummer. It's the one instrument I actually play pretty well. It's just hard to carry on your back.
