Jimi Hendrix Quotes
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I come from an immigrant family, but I know no other nationality apart from British.
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I love French films, and I copy things I see in them. I read magazines and also look at Tumblr. I love nails, so I literally just search the word 'nails' on Tumblr and start looking.
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The great sin was adopting the 21st Century's Socialism, something that not even its founder, Ditrich knows exactly what it is, though he says it is under construction.
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The whole point of music is being able to share your story. I've been songwriting for a long time, usually while on the road, as a way to get my feelings out.
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You need to train your brain to be positive.
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You are an athlete when you're onstage. You can't get tired.
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My dad used to give me a lot of spankings. Anything I did wrong, he was on me. I was raised by a strict disciplinarian. He kind of laid down the law.
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I have turned down so many endorsements. My phone never stops ringing.
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Alanis Morissette - I love how she's not afraid to say what she wants to say. Love it or hate it, she's going to say it. And her vocals are crazy; they're amazing, and I also love how her music is really organic.
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You learn a lot about love before you ever get there. You learn at least as much about love from books as you do from watching your parents.
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Not owning a car anymore, I feel like I'm barely an American. I miss it. And I barely ever get to listen to the radio in the car, which is the best place for radio.
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The first thing many tourists see in Hawaii is concrete - a long dreary stretch of it through landscapes dominated by sad, cheap apartment buildings and almost entirely denuded of plant life.
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I never thought of myself as a performer or songwriter or singer.
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My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
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I think that sexiness should be in the subtleties.
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I still have never met Harry Saltzman, and was told he is quite unpleasant.
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I thought, I need to reinvent myself. I want every day of life to be wonderful, fascinating, interesting, creative. And what am I gonna do to make that happen?
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Not since the Depression has the state been this dry, have our rivers been this low, our water table this low, and our reservoirs this low.
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Baby it's you. You're the one I love. You're the one I need. You're the only one I see.
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Jonas Salk showed that a killed virus vaccine would work and would be damned effective in fighting disease. This was something that virologists of the day pooh-poohed. And Salk proved them wrong.
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In a sense I've made the same film over and over again. In all of them I've asked, 'Who are we as Americans?
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In 'The Girl Who Chased Away Sorrow,' part of the 'Dear America' series, I took my childhood bravery and stubbornness and put that at the core of the Navajo girl, Sarah Nita. It helped me to identify with her survival and to write about her courageous journey and that of her people.
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You have to give people something to dream on.
