Joe Perry Quotes

I've always felt you are only as good as your next album or next show. What you've done is done. When you get a gold record, you hang it on the wall, and then it's like, 'Yeah, next?'

Joe Perry

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My mom is the kind of mom, when we would go to a friend of the family's house, and they would offer us something to drink or offer us something to eat, my mother would always say, 'Tell them no.' You could be starving - you could be dehydrated - but as kids, we were supposed to tell the host, 'No.'

Jesmyn Ward

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I had to find stories no one else was writing, so I got away from the quarterback and the coach. I'm still looking for stories no one else has written.

John Branch

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'Learn your lines.' I want that on my gravestone.

John C. McGinley

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I went on safari in South Africa just after apartheid had ended.

John McEnroe

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To me, the most shocking thing about grit is how little we know, how little science knows, about building it. Every day, parents and teachers ask me, 'How do I build grit in kids? What do I do to teach kids a solid work ethic? How do I keep them motivated for the long run?' The honest answer is, I don't know.

Angela Duckworth

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Rich or poor, every child comes into the world with some imperative need of its own, which shapes its individuality.

Lucy Larcom

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My memoir is about my time in film and the decision to leave Hollywood, grow up, and stop pretending.

Lisa Jakub

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I always loved singing and writing poetry. I always loved music, and I've loved writing my whole life. When I put them together, it was probably in my early 20s where I put words to music for the first time.

Lisa Marie Presley

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When my generation, those early days of television - I know I've been thinking about this lately - my two flashes of me as a little boy. One, I'm standing in front of the radio freaking out that Nat King Cole's singing 'Lady of Spain', just this stuff coming out of the radio, and Guy Williams singing 'Wild Horses' coming out of the radio.

Jonathan Demme

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From a certain age, I sort of accepted myself for what I was. And although to other people it was like nothing ever goes right, I had a really nice attitude that I'd inherited from my parents, and especially from my dad.

Johnny Vegas

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I'm interested in damaged people because we've all been roughed up in one way or another.

Brian Azzarello

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Shuffling is the only thing which Nature cannot undo.

Arthur Eddington

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