Gary Rossington Quotes
We're not really for anything but a better America, a stronger country. And we do support our soldiers.
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Marriage is a commitment for life. It is a permanent, lifelong relationship.
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We were taught manners and we had to do our chores - Katie and I grew up as normal kids.
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The mistake that straight people made was imposing the monogamous expectation on men. Men were never expected to be monogamous.
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I was kind of a wild child. I wasn't taught the niceties of life.
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Badly constructed houses do for the healthy what badly constructed hospitals do for the sick. Once insure that the air in a house is stagnant, and sickness is certain to follow.
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Don't sell credits; don't sell walk-on roles... If people want to back you, they'll back you. But if you have to entice people will walk-on roles and crazy credits, you're undermining yourself.
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I volunteer with School on Wheels in Los Angeles, and I also tutor with Koreh L.A.
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My schedule is so crazy.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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To get away from poverty, you need several things at the same time: school, health, and infrastructure - those are the public investments. And on the other side, you need market opportunities, information, employment, and human rights.
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In my life, there have always been people who guided my path, towards the school, towards this company. I didn't know about any of it. I didn't have a plan. It's good fortune and generosity from other people that have given me all I have today.
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The best part about the movie, and everybody seems to rave about it, is the boot camp part.
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I loved singing rock-and-roll, jazz, anything on radio, anything commercial. I was able to do anything, but I didn't know what direction to go in.
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I have a very vivid memory of the way my parents spoke, and the 50's that I grew up in are closer to the 20's, I think, than today in many, many ways.
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I'd studied English literature at university, but I was also far more enamored with Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, and James Joyce. That was my passion.
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To communicate with each other, we got to get mad at each other sometimes.
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Not too many people know it, but when I was in junior high, I was a pretty tough kid and was the leader of a street gang. Well, OK, it was less a street gang than an Ecology Club. We were pretty intimidating, though, and had our own meeting room until we got run out of there by a bunch of thugs from the Poetry Society.
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I can't add. I don't understand basic science. Or anything else. But I can read anything. I've always been able to, and I've always liked to. Even if I didn't understand it, I liked to.
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I believe there's things all around us that make you do good things and some that make you do bad things.
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There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them.
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... Our individual well-being is intimately connected both with that of all others and with the environment within which we live.... Our every action, our every deed, word, and thought, no matter how slight or inconsequential it may seem, has an implication not only for ourselves, but for all others, too.
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
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TV ushered in the age of postliteracy. And we have gone so far beyond that. I mean, what with the Internet and Google and Wikipedia. We have entered the age of post-intelligence.
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We're not really for anything but a better America, a stronger country. And we do support our soldiers.
