John Fogerty Quotes

I usually destroy unreleased material. It has a way of coming back to haunt you.

John Fogerty Creedence Clearwater Revival

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• The responsibility of an artist is to be honest with themselves.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Responsibility
  • Artist

• I just think that is so important to keep a strong support system, to keep yourself encouraged.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Important
  • Strong
  • Support

• I'm not out to preach. I just live my own life. I'm very happy if I can help somebody - that's wonderful. But it's up to them what they want to think about it or what they want to take away; it's their business, not mine.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Life
  • Up
  • Live

• Everybody did something. It was very entertaining. We had a lot of fun. Lot of fun. And there was no segregation, that I could see. I never saw any.

  

  Cab Calloway
  • Fun
  • Never
  • Segregation

• The passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 represented precisely such a hope - that America had learned from its past and acted to secure a better tomorrow.

  

  Aberjhani
  • America
  • Hope
  • Past

• The American War of Independence is the expulsion of the intrusive elements, alien to the American essence. If American reality is the reinvention of itself, whatever is found in any way irreducible or unassimilable is not American.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • American
  • War
  • Reality

• Do you know what I'm working on now? My first feature as a director.

  

  Faye Dunaway
  • Know
  • Now
  • Director

• I travel a lot. I'm on the move.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Travel
  • Move
  • Lot

• Most of my recipes start life in the domestic kitchen, and even those that start out in the restaurant kitchen have to go through the domestic kitchen.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Life
  • Start
  • Kitchen

• Gay culture is surviving and thriving. Some activists believe the recent rise in homophobic violence might be a gauge of the success of positive gay images.

  

  Lance Loud
  • Believe
  • Success
  • Culture

• The artists realise it will take time. It is an upliftment process.

  

  Eddy Grant
  • Time
  • Process
  • Take

• I have realized that intensity is my unique point. I don't have to attempt it; it's innate. So, when every actor is seeking his individuality, I guess I have already found mine.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Unique
  • Actor
  • Individuality

• Tonight, you are hearing from the Democratic women of the Senate... We stand together on so many issues: economic prosperity, quality education for all, protecting a woman's right to choose.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Women
  • Together
  • Education

• No power on earth is greater than a mind and soul reawakened. Our Constitution begins 'we the people', not 'us the government'.

  

  Cal Thomas
  • People
  • Mind
  • Power

• Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.

  

  Abraham Flexner
  • War
  • Education
  • Rich

• Juggling many projects and having all these accidental collisions that you can't predict enables a kind of comparative thinking. To focus on a single project from beginning to end is extremely difficult, not just for me, but for many people.

  

  Natalie Jeremijenko
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Single

• Art is not life, but in a sense something contrary to life, since life is transient and changing, while art is permanent.

  

  Daniel Bell
  • Life
  • Art

• Not to be realized because not to Be seen, not to be loved nor hated because Not to be realized.

  

  Wallace Stevens

• The noise is so loud that birds, waves, and people are silenced by the frantic roar of morons screaming and tearing back and forth, back and forth, devastating the peace of a quiet day at the beach and the joy of fellow boatmen on the water.

  

  Katharine Hepburn
  • People
  • Peace
  • Water

• The travels before and after the tour are what add up to what you're doing. You are really called into service - and it's the service industry man, it's blue collar man, I'm sweating by the second song. It's construction work from that second song on.

  

  David Lee Roth Van Halen
  • Man
  • Service
  • Industry

• Hollywood loves to typecast, and I guess they saw me as a violent guy.

  

  Gene Hackman
  • Guy

• When I think about 'Since U Been Gone,' I think the first thing that comes to mind is 'Livin' On A Prayer' - they're kind of like sisters, a little bit. And 'Call Me Maybe' was so wildly original, and so quirky, and so satisfying.

  

  Bonnie McKee
  • Mind
  • Prayer

• Something seems to happen to people when they meet a journalist, and what happens is exactly the opposite of what one would expect. One would think that extreme wariness and caution would be the order of the day, but, in fact, childish trust and impetuosity are far more common.

  

  Janet Malcolm
  • People
  • Trust

• I usually destroy unreleased material. It has a way of coming back to haunt you.

  

  John Fogerty Creedence Clearwater Revival