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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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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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 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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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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I started back to the house, and in the drive I met Jeeves. He was at the wheel of Stiffy's car. Beside him, looking like a Scotch elder rebuking sin, was the dog Bartholomew.
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The hero of my tale, whom I love with all the power of my soul, whom I have tried to portray in all his beauty, who has been, is, and will be beautiful, is Truth.
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Root out the counterrevolutionaries without mercy, lock up suspicious characters in concentration camps... Shirkers will be shot, regardless of past service.
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The Episcopals don't demand much in the way of actual religious belief. They have girl priests, gay priests, gay bishops, gay marriages - it's much like The New York Times editorial board. They acknowledge the Ten Commandments - or 'Moses' talking points' - but hasten to add that they're not exactly 'carved in stone.'
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Presumably the child-brain is something like a note-book as one buys it from the stationer's. Rather little mechanism, and lots of blank sheets.
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And for a very special group of people, we've provided their only job. I'm speaking of course of the disabled. They have stated they don't want a hand out just a hand. We are happy to give them one.
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If I'd had a charisma-ectomy in the beginning, XP would have gone nowhere.
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Physical beauty is like athletic skill: it peaks young.
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Heck, I'm no Henry Mancini or Michel Legrand. I just play the guitar and write songs.
