Rolling Quotes - Page 3

• There are so many things that are misunderstood or not recognized about my father's music because they've been filtered by people who work for magazines like Rolling Stone.

  Dweezil Zappa

  Music, Father, People

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• I measure success in terms of the connection with the audience, which we've been able to do in spades. I mean, it's very hard to do that. You think about it, you go back in time, you can say, "Well, there's, like, 'Saturday Night Live' and 'Rolling Stone' or MTV." I think 'Vice' is in that category now.

  Tom Freston

  Mean, Night, Thinking

  "Vice's Shane Smith and Tom Freston on Sending Dennis Rodman to North Korea for HBO". Interview with Eriq Gardner, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 12, 2013.

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• When I started Rolling Stone in November 1967, the magazine's initial chapter was to cover rock & roll music with intelligence and respect. Even then, we knew that the fervor sweeping our generation encompassed more than just music.

  Jann Wenner

  Rocks, Our Generation, Magazines

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• Carol Burnett probably had the biggest influence on me as kid. Although I was very young and watched her a lot in reruns, I was mesmerized by the way she transformed, by her physical comedy and the rolling laughter from the live studio audience. I loved her most as Scarlett O'Hara and her well known Cleaning Lady character.

  Christine Lakin

  Laughter, Character, Kids

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• Art is love creating the new world and justice is love rolling up its sleeves to heal the old one.

  N. T. Wright

  Art, Creating, Justice

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• Rolling down the street, smoking indo, sippin' on gin and juice.

  Snoop Dogg

  Alcohol, Smoking, Drug

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• But I've never really done anything that implies any kind of danger. I wouldn't skydive, I wouldn't deep sea dive, I wouldn't parachute. I think you're really just rolling the dice. Who packed your chute the night before?

  Eugene Levy

  Night, Thinking, Sea

  "Eugene Levy: 'American Pie got kinda graphic'" by atherine Shoard, www.theguardian.com. April 26, 2012.

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• The Beatles were just the beginning of everything music could be, just like the Stones I was Rolling along like a ship lost out on the sea.

  David Allan Coe

  Sea, Rolling Along, Stones

  Song: Willie, Waylon And Me

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• My attitude is always let it keep rolling.

  Terrence Malick

  Attitude, My Attitude

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Once the Republicans get rolling, they assume they're going to win everything. They are zealots, and zealots assume the last five percent of whatever their plan is will be taken care of by their own greatness or momentum or divinity.

  Keith Olbermann

  Taken, Winning, Greatness

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• Whom can I ask what I came to make happen in this world? Why do I move without wanting to, why am I not able to sit still? Why do I go rolling without wheels, flying without wings or feathers, and why did I decide to migrate if my bones live in Chile?

  Pablo Neruda

  Moving, Destiny, Wings

  Pablo Neruda (1991). “The book of questions”, Copper Canyon Pr

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• I think anything that you put your life's energy into becomes part of your identity. It would be difficult for the Rolling Stones to not play rock and roll anymore, because that's their image of themselves. When you've convinced everybody that that's who you are, that's who you are.

  Jim Bridwell

  Thinking, Rocks, Climbing

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• You have to be like the pebble in the stream, keeping the grain and rolling along without being dissolved or dissolving anything else.

  Joseph Joubert

  Rolling Along, Pebbles, Grain

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• Stop rolling down hill like a snow ball headed for hell.

  Merle Haggard

  Snow, Evil, Balls

  Song: Are The Good Times Really Over

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• Getting people to fight by letting the force of momentum work is like rolling logs and rocks. Logs and rocks are still when in a secure place, but roll on an incline; they remain stationary if square, they roll if round. Therefore, when people are skillfully led into battle, the momentum is like that of round rocks rolling down a high mountain - this is force.

  Sun Tzu

  Fighting, Squares, Rocks

  Sunzi, Sun-Tzu, Thomas Cleary (1998). “The illustrated art of war”, Shambhala Pubns

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• I was lucky enough to get a very good agent at the age of 15, and got my first film when I was 16, so it's been rolling on since then.

  Douglas Booth

  Age, Lucky, Firsts

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Yeah, yeah, I've been Beatled, I've been Rolling Stoned.

  Sammy Hagar

  Rolling Stones, Yeah

  Song: Keep On Rockin'

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• Laughing like children, living like lovers, rolling like thunder, under the covers, and I guess that's why they call it the blues.

  Elton John

  Children, Sadness, Laughing

  Song: I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues

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• I'm not trying to hide from my past. I want to roll in it. Like a dog, rolling in feces, I'm rolling in the feces of my greatest hits - that's a bit of a wild way of looking at it, but I am a man, and we do like rolling in our own feces at times.

  Billy Idol

  Dog, Past, Men

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• While other girls swooned over The Beatles and the Rolling Stones, I worshipped Rudolf Nureyev and Isadora Duncan.

  Celia Imrie

  Girl, Stones, Duncan

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• Crimson flames tied through my ears rolling high and mighty traps, pounced with fire on flaming roads using ideas as my maps.

  Bob Dylan

  Philosophy, Flames, Ideas

  Bob Dylan (2014). “The Lyrics: Since 1962”, p.152, Simon and Schuster

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• Lift every voice and sing Till earth and heaven ring, Ring with the harmonies of Liberty. Let our rejoicing rise high as the listening skies; Let it resound loud as the rolling sea.

  James Weldon Johnson

  Sea, Sky, Voice

  James Weldon Johnson (2011). “The Essential Writings of James Weldon Johnson”, p.227, Modern Library

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• Every one who repeats it adds something to the scandal. [The rolling snow-ball.]

  Ovid

  Snow, Add, Balls

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• I believe the Rolling Stones wanted to play in Golden Gate Park.

  Paul Kantner

  Believe, Play, Stones

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• Today was the annual Easter egg roll on the White House lawn. Usually when you see something rolling on the White House lawn it's a drunk Secret Service agent.

  Conan O'Brien

  Easter, Eggs, White

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