Henry John Deutschendorf Jr. (John Denver) Quotes
Heck, I'm no Henry Mancini or Michel Legrand. I just play the guitar and write songs.
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On the Internet, inside information is currency, and there will always be counterfeiters among us.
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Believe in something larger than yourself... get involved in the big ideas of your time.
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We are not merely passive pawns of historical forces; nor are we victims of the past. We can shape and direct history.
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I think it'd be great if the evening news broadcast, for instance, were unsponsored and unrated.
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We Greeks are the blacks of Europe.
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No one's promised anything. You could have the biggest record on radio and sell no records.
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For me to have the opportunity to stay with one character for, God willing, a long period of time, is really exciting.
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From 'Trainspotting' to 'Acid House,' I moved from urban realism into fantasy.
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It was so satisfying for me - a great reward, just to see it done well. And it was beautifully directed by my daughter Susan Riskin. Imagine, a play about my mother directed by my daughter?!
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I came into the world at the same time as the auto, if you will.
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I think I have great responsibility, and when I do my music, when I try to relate to my audience, I just try to do it in an honest fashion, you know, just try to be as earnest as possible and sometime it may be self-effacing. Sometimes it may be finger-pointing. Sometimes it may be beautiful, and sometime it may be ugly.
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Anybody who's been through a divorce will tell you that at one point. they've thought murder. The line between thinking murder and doing murder isn't that major.
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History shows us that in times of people feeling like they are in need of some sort of rebellion or protests, the artists rise because the poetry we create about pain and its relationship to culture in the world begins to soothe and heal people who are feeling confused or afraid.
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I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.
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The gunner's mate came up and started breaking the locks on the ammunition. Everything was locked up for fear that someone might go in there with a cigarette or something.
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I always wanted to be more validated as a human being, as a person, than I was as a player. I think that was a really hard balance for me.
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My dream of society is a society where women are free and proud of their bodies.
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Birmingham is very special for me because it is here that I found myself alive, seven days after I was shot... It is now my second home, after my beloved Pakistan.
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We are using both visual biomarkers, MRI and a panel of blood and tissue testing including work on telomere length with Spectracell and Life Length and epigenetic testing.
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In September 2008, the two largest housing mortgage companies called Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which were government-sponsored enterprises, which hold hundreds of billions of dollars of mortgages, because of the losses they took on the mortgages, they essentially became insolvent, and the government had to take them over.
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Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.
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Heck, I'm no Henry Mancini or Michel Legrand. I just play the guitar and write songs.
