John Fogerty Quotes
I feel happy about the songs I've written. I'm a great lover of the craft of songwriting, and I sure admire it in other people when I see it – past and present. I feel comfortable with what I have accomplished. I feel happy to be able to work in that environment, and that I have a lot of songs left to be written, somewhere.
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You never know when your future wife might be in the stands.
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Comedy can be harder because if you aren't making the audience laugh, they're going to turn on you quicker. They'll go along with mediocre drama more than they'll go along with mediocre comedy.
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I think the biggest part of a good party is the host and then going around making sure nobody's left alone and knows enough about the people in the room to know who to introduce to whom.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
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I've been rapping since I was 18 years old, with a crew called Blades.
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When people are nervous, some people move around. Some people scratch their leg.
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I've always said that the word 'genius,' especially in Hollywood, is way overused.
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The Russians obtained a number of plants under Lend-Lease, which had been authorized by Washington, that I thought were not justified for their war effort. They wanted them for postwar use.
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The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't - it just keeps you from enjoying it.
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To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.
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It is not fun singing about losing somebody like that, but at the same time it was easy to write because the memories were so real and vivid and so much a part of who I am.
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People from the most horrendous of childhoods can have good lives, but it comes down to a very seemingly simple word. 'Choice.'
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Movies don't make people act a fool. People act a fool because they want to act a fool.
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I'm not against gay people.
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Life is tough; and if you have the ability to laugh at it, you have the ability to enjoy it.
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I think the most important thing for me in a relationship is honesty.
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I have been married for 58 years to the same woman. Our secret? Separate bathrooms.
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You can do your job and be yourself and be comfortable all at the same time!
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I've always had the perspective that roles come into my life when I need them most and sort of teach me lessons. The same can be true of films, films are released into society to aid in a lesson, inspire people, comfort people.
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The profound lack of economic opportunity for those left behind by globalization has created an ever-widening gap between the 'haves' and the 'have nots.'
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All prisons that have existed in our society to date put people away as no human being should ever be put away.
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I feel happy about the songs I've written. I'm a great lover of the craft of songwriting, and I sure admire it in other people when I see it – past and present. I feel comfortable with what I have accomplished. I feel happy to be able to work in that environment, and that I have a lot of songs left to be written, somewhere.
