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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My favorite video to film was 'Work It' because it began the incredible road ahead. Missy was protective and thoughtful of us kids, removing us from the mature scenes and using the clean version when we filmed.
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Nearer the gods no mortal may approach.
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Why can't modern tech companies both grow and turn a profit at the same time?
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To be happy is not the purpose of our being rather it is to deserve happiness.
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We have to play 'Livin' on a Prayer,' 'Bad Medicine.' We have to play them, and we want to play them, and that's what we're supposed to do. It's like going to see The Beatles and them not playing your favorite song. It's not the right thing to do.
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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.
