Henry John Deutschendorf Jr. (John Denver) Quotes
I think the biggest problem in the world is that we have a generation of young people, and maybe two, who don't think it's going to get any better.
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When belief in a god dies, the god dies.
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Not to speak disparagingly of Justin Bieber or Rihanna, but they're not so hands-on with their image or their sound. They don't write the music. They have people doing things for them.
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Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.
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If you don't have liberty and self-determination, you've got nothing, that's what this is what this country is built on. And this is the ultimate self-determination, when you determine how and when you're going to die when you're suffering.
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If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.
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I don't have a fear of aging or a fear of death.
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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
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When I was coming up as a kid, there were programs that kept me out of trouble and on the straight and narrow in South Central Los Angeles, and I always felt that when I got to a stage where I could provide similar opportunities to kids then I would do that.
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Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.
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And now I have a big house, nice clothes and I travel in first class and I love it, so maybe it's time to enjoy being a star.
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We need to become good citizens in the global village, instead of competing. What are we competing for - to drive more cars, eat more steaks? That will destroy the world.
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There was no difference between my characters and the life my readers were going to have to face.
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Mostly this problem is contained in the fact that the US makes it so difficult for Canadians to get green cards (you heard it here), but if an American orchestra really wants a player, they have their ways.
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When I feel like my body is exhausted, I focus on making my fifth Olympic team so I can push through it.
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I always wondered what it would be like to have a normal childhood.
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But when I go to Chicago, I know I'm home.
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No, United Artists was a very extraordinary organization, because once they had agreed on the director, they believed in letting him have his way. They trusted me, and that doesn't often happen.
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The newspaper is in all its literalness the bible of democracy, the book out of which a people determines its conduct.
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I am sorry to upset my colleagues by saying we wasted four years in opposition, but if you do get so badly defeated as a party you do have to face up to some painful facts and you do have to change.
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These interests of the workers, as the exploited and oppressed, class of society, are the same in all countries.
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Development, it turns out, occurs through this process of progressively more complex exchange between a child and somebody else- especially somebody who’s crazy about that child
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I think the biggest problem in the world is that we have a generation of young people, and maybe two, who don't think it's going to get any better.
