Joe Quotes

When I was up there at the plate, my purpose was to get on base anyway I could, whether by hitting or by getting hit.

I think every minute you're in a situation like this, your clock is ticking.

It was the highlight of my life being in the Mae West show, because I saw and did things I never had before.

I like the way you hustle man.

You've got to think outside the box. If you can't, that's going to put you behind the power curve in a big way.

You have got to control your fear, get in control of your emotions.

The Republicans would like to take us back to a darker time, when corporations ruled and the underserved had no rights.

When you write songs, you gotta be like a receiving station: you gotta be aware of what's going on around you. I never know what a song is going to be about before I write it.

Instead of plastic surgery, I'd rather have a height enhancement surgery.

Music and soccer. They would be my two major passions.

That's why 60,000 people go ape when the Stones play 'Satisfaction.' The songs are part of their legacy, and you fall back in love with them over the years.

The Vatican takes your breath away.

When we try to write a pop song, we go for standard pop arrangements, even to the point where we will go to the key change at the end, which is really cheesy.

Even Crazy Horses is a good song, by the Osmonds. I've known many bands who have covered that. It's just a great song. I bought it in a brown, paper bag because I didn't want anyone to know I had it.

Simply the best! Great music, extremely entertaining.

Fairy tales to me are never happy, sweet stories. They're moral stories about overcoming the dark side and the bad.

I worry that we are approaching a time when that which is shocking is squeezed out by the Stalinism of political correctness.

Every time I make a film, I feel it gives me the chance to learn something new.

I see the job of directing as being one of creating the right atmosphere, creating an environment where people can realize their full potential.

With any level of success you get some non-musical things that come along - money, ego - and it's easy to lose your perspective and get off doing what you did to get there.

My father could have been deported because on his immigration application he said that he was a printer, obviously because he didn't want them to be checking his writings.

I have my own religious bond with the God in my own head.

I had read too many memoirs that were written after the writer or the director was past his or her prime.

With a growing population, there is a growing need for more water delivery and storage.

I just wanted to make sure that what I write is what appears on screen, to not have some idiot change it on its way to the screen.

I used anything, various materials; this is wood, and this is mixed up clay, wedged together, clay with glazes and stuff like that.

Five percent seems very little to ask when you consider that the artist, through his or her efforts over many years, is largely responsible for the increased value of their work.

Air Force interceptors still pursue Unidentified Flying Objects as a matter of national security to this country and to determine technical aspects involved.

He asked why and I said, 'Because Gwyneth has a fat suit, my wife has a fat suit - I don't get a fat suit?' He looked at me and said, 'You mean you don't have one on?'

But eventually I moved the portraiture into the smaller clay things which gave them more of a caricature look to them, rather than a characterization.

Dreams do come true. Yes, even yours. But you have to meet them part way. Get up and do something towards them. Now.

I believe Donald Trump is the best guy for president; and I'm not going to shy away and I take the risk. I could just stay home and don't talk about any candidate.

#1 priority is water, water and more water.

Everywhere you go, mother nature's throwing some curve-ball at you.

The wise wait for their moment, but never let it pass.

I was born on May 17, 1979, in Newark, New Jersey.

I worked hard. I worked late. I went in early. I did everything I could to gain an advantage.

When I grew up music was something I did on the side - I played sports, I went to school - and so music was always there, and I was really fortunate to have that, but so were so many other things.

I'm just an average Canadian kid playing hockey.

Tommy (Lasorda) will eat anything, as long as you pay for it.

Now everybody is mafia. You got the Russian mafia, the Mexican mafia. Everybody is mafia these days.

Golf is the only game I know where you call a foul on yourself.

Old hippies don't die, they just lie low until the laughter stops and their time comes round again.

We all have different ways to do things.

The truest state of humanity is that you're living for other people.

Refocusing on what you do want will take you in the direction of what you want.

You created this moment from what you thought and felt three days ago. What you are thinking and feeling right now will create your next moments. You cool with that?

I think we just have to become more consistent.

For order and a society to exist - and a basketball team is a society within itself - it needs discipline.

I then discovered the Pop Art of Warhol, Lichtenstein, and Peter Max. I was inspired that these fun and colourful images could be presented seriously on canvas.