John Fogerty Quotes
When the bad stuff was really intense in my life, it was really what you would call writer's block. Your facility is just not as good because you feel so bad. I've heard of people right on the verge of suicide coming up with some of their best work. I wish I could think of an example, other than Van Gogh, perhaps!
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The travel and tourism industry, it's just a huge part of our economy.
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Everybody thinks they deserve something.
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I quite like Low, the band from Minnesota. They're absolutely mesmerizing. I get much the same feeling from anything that Will Oldham does.
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Where you have the most armed citizens in America, you have the lowest violent crime rate. Where you have the worst gun control, you have the highest crime rate.
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How long you live is less important than how healthy you are along the way.
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I have been acting since I was thirteen.
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The one thing about going from the audience to the stage in just three years is that you know how it feels to be down there.
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Nobody knows 100% what affects the human body, mind or spirit.
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I don't have to be a size zero anymore. But I still want to feel and look good.
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The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.
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I go out and speak to women's groups all the time, and I say, 'Guys, you gotta laugh and find the humor in things. You gotta pass it on.'
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The service of philosophy, of speculative culture, towards the human spirit, is to rouse, to startle it to a life of constant and eager observation.
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Courses on historical methodology are not worth the time that they take up. I shall never give one myself, and I have observed that many of my colleagues who do give such courses refrain from exemplifying their methods by writing anything.
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Science does not limit itself merely to what is currently verifiable. But it is interested in questions that are potentially verifiable (or, rather, falsifiable).
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There's something really cool about TV. TV, you get the luxury of having the same people around. It is such a blessing when you get a TV job. You really have a chance to get to make, like, work friends. I think TV is one of the few mediums where I've had the opportunity to get to know my crew members.
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I love twins stories.
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I've done two 'Hamlets,' two 'Lears,' three 'Midsummer Night's Dreams' - I've done most of these plays more than once, and every time I direct them, I learn things.
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I love what TLC did with the baggy pants. I love a lot of throwbacks.
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I have faith in the universe, for it is rational. Law underlies each happening. And I have faith in my purpose here on earth. I have faith in my intuition, the language of my conscience, but I have no faith in speculation about Heaven and Hell. I'm concerned with this time-here and now.
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It's easy to forget the ever-plodding eBay with all the noise made by the more lithe and lively Web 2.0 companies.
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The way to build billion dollar companies is to first build something people love. There isn't really a shortcut there.
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Women know what they're doing all the time, and they're pretending that they don't.
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That's my curse, I see the politics within these things and so I don't say yes to them.
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When the bad stuff was really intense in my life, it was really what you would call writer's block. Your facility is just not as good because you feel so bad. I've heard of people right on the verge of suicide coming up with some of their best work. I wish I could think of an example, other than Van Gogh, perhaps!
