John Fogerty Quotes
That song has the full extent of my mandolin abilities; I'm not a good mandolin player at all.
Quotes to Explore
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When you sing gospel you have a feeling there is a cure for what's wrong.
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I've had the good fortune to have a much more diverse life than most people would, professional sports and television and news and movies.
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I love to smell like roses, literally all day!
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I like when everything's naturally moving along - I find that pretty exciting.
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With freedom comes responsibility, and I can think of no responsibility greater than putting on a U.S military uniform and standing in the gap between an enemy threat and civilian life.
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Most of my fans, if you were to look on their iPods, you'd see every possible genre of music represented in some capacity.
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We all serve a purpose. My purpose isn't to be rejected. My purpose isn't to think small or to be introverted. This door closed is literally pushing me to the next door.
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The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends are seen in fearful sharpness of outline.
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There is not one New York but thousands - mixed-up conurbations and microclimates with their own internal logics and charms, dreams and juxtapositions, faces and tongues.
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You see what happens in college and high school games today - a three-point shot or a dunk. I think that's the reason that you see a lot of that in the pros today.
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There's a molecule inside of you that is connected to everything - every person, every energy, every thing. You look for it, and when you find it, then you allow it to magnify and grow and be the dominating chemistry inside of you.
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Risk is to do something that 99 percent of the time would be a failure.
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There is a great difference between Christianity and religion at the south. If a man goes to the communion table, and pays money into the treasury of the church, no matter if it be the price of blood, he is called religious.
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I find Indian music very funky. I mean it's very soulful, with their own kind of blues. But it's the only other school on the planet that develops improvisation to the high degree that you find in jazz music. So we have a lot of common ground.
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Suppose that every prospective parent in the world stopped having children naturally, and instead produced clones of themselves. What would the world be like in another 20 or 30 years? The answer is: much like today. Cloning would only copy the genetic aspects of people who are already here.
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I am a compulsive and concise shopper.
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Low interest rates are a big opportunity for investment. But the issue is that this money should go to the real economy, not the financial economy.
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Dancing doesn't have a language.
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The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
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You're dressed in a tuxedo, you wear a bow tie. A bow tie with a tuxedo is more formal than a straight tie with a tuxedo.
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I'm not very good at sticking at things if I can't be successful at them. I gave up on sport a long time ago.
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A good love story always keeps the pot boiling.
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Government likes committees... a lot. Committees kill all the really good ideas and generally all the really bad ideas. They produce middle-ground mush.
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That song has the full extent of my mandolin abilities; I'm not a good mandolin player at all.
