"I never felt out of control. It was just the way I lived my life. I was the neighborhood bully."

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Source : Johnny Ramone (2012). “Commando: The Autobiography of Johnny Ramone”, p.12, Abrams

Johnny Ramone

#Bully Quotes #Way Quotes #Neighborhood Quotes

“A GREAT PAINTER will know a great deal about how he did it, but still he will say, â€œHow did I do it?”
“I try to play what comes naturally at the moment and let it happen.”
“Some truths should perhaps be left unsaid. Some doors unopened. An angel once told me to let go of the ills I held too close, to let go of the flaws that shaped me.”
“Art is not, as the metaphysicians say, the manifestation of some mysterious idea of beauty or God; it is not, as the aesthetical physiologists say, a game in which man lets off his excess of stored-up energy; it is not the expression of man's emotions by external signs; it is not the production of pleasing objects; and, above all, it is not pleasure; but it is a means of union among men, joining them together in the same feelings, and indispensable for the life and progress toward well-being of individuals and of humanity.”
“if you men only knew how we love a man who can be just a woman to us sometimes!”
“Contrary to popular belief, conventional wisdom would have one believe that it is insane to resist this, the mightiest of empiresâ€¦ But what history really shows is that today`s empire is tomorrow`s ashes, that nothing lasts forever, and that to not resist is to acquiesce in your own oppression. The greatest form of sanity that anyone can exercise is to resist that force that is trying to repress, oppress, and fight down the human spirit.”
“Understand me. Iâ€™m not like an ordinary world. I have my madness, I live in another dimension and I do not have time for things that have no soul.”
“It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.”

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