Gary Rossington Quotes
I'm feeling real good and trying to take care of myself and living healthy. As good as I can feel.
Quotes to Explore
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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Don't go into any store that features shopping bags that can stand on their own accord in the middle of a table. This sort of shopping bag denotes prices that will start chipping into your children's college education fund. Avoid it.
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Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.
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I'm not an American, but I have this weird connection to America in different ways through my dad living here for five years, my godfather being an American who I'm very close to.
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When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn't as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything.
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I think the best president - because he changed the whole mood of the country, the whole economy of the country, and stood up to Communism... that was continuing its causes around the world, and backed them off and caused them to collapse - and that was Ronald Reagan.
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I've been strongly opposed to racial discrimination and anything like that my whole life. Maybe it's thanks to my parents and where I grew up and that sort of thing, but particularly with gay and lesbian citizens, I've seen that people can be cruel, and it's very distressing.
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Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can.
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In terms of 'Seinfeld', I think there's lot of reality in a show that's supposed to be about nothing.
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I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.
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The American public got to see for themselves every day, all day, how this trial progressed. There's a lot of value in the public being able to see how the system works.
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The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.
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More and more, we're used to taking things in through the eyes rather than through the ears, and opera is more of a spectacle.
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Misfits aren't misfits among other misfits.
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I want to be judged by who I am, not by a relationship.
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Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.
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I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for 'then' but a message for 'now.'
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Words are the only arteries of thought our poor human body possesses.
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I really feel that I had a genuinely diverse, multicultural upbringing, and I just don't find New York to be quite as diverse. Maybe I'm romanticising, but I feel that I was exposed to a real melting pot in terms of culture and pop culture. My kids are essentially middle-class, but I do try to remind them that they come from humble beginnings.
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Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.
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The more I worked on 'Half Brother,' the more it seemed to me the story was really about love in all its possible forms - how and why we decide to bestow it, or withdraw it; how we decide what is more worthy of being loved, and what is less. We are masters of conditional love.
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The U.S. government has in recent years fought what it termed wars against AIDs, drug abuse, poverty, illiteracy and terrorism. Each of those wars has budgets, legislation, offices, officials, letterhead - everything necessary in a bureaucracy to tell you something is real.
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I'm feeling real good and trying to take care of myself and living healthy. As good as I can feel.
