John Fogerty Quotes
You got to hidey-hide, you got to jump and run again. You got to hide-hidey-hide, the old man is down the road.
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I do most of my reading on the train ride to and from work. But I always have a book in my handbag so that I can read at any time, anywhere.
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The joining of the whole congregation in prayer has something exceedingly solemn and affecting in it.
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We believe in the vision of 'Make in India,' and our proposed joint venture with Rafael is a step in this direction.
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I'll tell you sort of an odd story: My music taste changed on 9/11. And it's very strange. I actually intellectually find this very curious. But on 9/11, I didn't like how rock music responded. And country music collectively, the way they responded, it resonated with me.
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No one pays me to be nice.
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At the school I attended, the clergyman who ran the cathedral school in Shanghai would give lines to the boys as a punishment. They expected you to copy out, say, 20 or 30 pages from one of the school texts. But I found that rather than laboriously copying out something from a novel by Charles Dickens, it was easier if I made it up myself.
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I don't think that women need to smell interesting.
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I am not a method actor, though I studied for a year with Lee Strasburg.
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I don't think paper will go away. I do believe that the value of paper will change, and Xerox is working on changing that value. Consider a color page. Actual life is in color, but you keep reproducing it in black and white. You remove value. It's a bad thing to do.
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A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
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There is a vast quantity of religion current in the world which is not true, genuine Christianity. It passes muster, it satisfies sleepy consciences; but it is not good money. It is not the authentic reality that called itself Christianity in the beginning.
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I think vestigially there's a synesthete in me, but not like a real one who immediately knows what colour Wednesday is.
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My father put it right when he said: 'I don't get ulcers. I give ulcers.'
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Im very nurturing.
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To try and act like we haven't had great progress is not true. Obama didn't fail - he changed the psyche of the nation and, in some ways, the world.
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How do we live the writer's life? There's only one simple answer: 'we write.'
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During the songs, you transcend yourself. The best way to be in the performance is to be without pause and be essentially in the moment, in that moment of expression.
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It's very intense to go back to the past and revive work that I've already experienced and moved forward from. It's like seeing an old girlfriend - awkward at times, nostalgic at times and downright maddening and embarrassing.
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Kofi Annan has already been instrumental in pushing forward that debate in the United Nations. I firmly support his efforts. A successful United Nations Summit next week presents the international community with a real opportunity to secure the necessary change.
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For me, the key is years of the blessed filmmakers I've worked with giving me permission to be bold and jump off cliffs and to be boundaryless. I would put David Lynch at the top of that list.
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I'm not Hans Christian Anderson. Nobody's gonna make a statue in the park with a lot of scrambling kids climbing up me. I won't have it, okay?
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For many gay and bisexual men of color, economic inequalities add to the pernicious effects of oppression and homophobia.
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You got to hidey-hide, you got to jump and run again. You got to hide-hidey-hide, the old man is down the road.
