"The simple fact is we do not live……" — Steven Van Zandt
"The simple fact is we do not live in a democracy. Certainly not the kind our Founding Fathers intended. We live in a corporate dictatorship represented by, and beholden to, no single human being you can reason with or hold responsible for anything."
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22 Quotes by Steven Van Zandt
Steven Van Zandt has 22 quotes on this site.
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I am a reformed Taoist, part-time Buddhist, Hindu, animist, pagan, Jewish mystic, and Christian. I always got along great with…
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I was obsessed with politics in the '80s. I've recovered and I'm feeling much better now, thank you.
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The quality of our lives is diminished every time we lose a great artist.
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Half of the acting I do is actually done by the hair.
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We never understood the concept of people going onstage and giving anything less than 100 percent. Maybe that's a blue-collar…
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Anytime you spend six months on a song (Born to Run), there's something not exactly going right. A song should…
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I didn't make that much money... Once I joined Bruce (Springsteen), I took a huge pay cut.
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Being a rock 'n' roll star ain't a part-time gig.
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Rock'n'roll as a genre is different from pop and hip hop: it is about bands, and that for me suggests…
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We're a little lazy about spirituality in this country.
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My lifelong friend and mentor Frank Barsalona is gone. And the music business as we knew it went with him.
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Half of the modern world goes back as far as Pearl Jam. The real historians go back to U2. But…
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Accepting federal funding undermines state sovereignty as states become beholden to federal requirements in order to keep the money flowing.
— Bob Barr
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We were put here as witnesses to the miracle of life. We see the stars, and we want them. We…
— Ray Bradbury
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All those who try to go it sole alone, Too proud to be beholden for relief, Are absolutely sure to…
— Robert Frost
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I would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny. For it is but usurpation in him…
— Cato the Younger
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I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The Congo Free State is unique in its kind. It has nothing to hide and no secrets and is not…
— Unknown Author
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Blind obedience is itself an abuse of human morality. It is a misuse of the human soul in the name…
— Joan D. Chittister
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The very act of committing an experience to the page is necessarily an act of reduction, and regardless of craft…
— Bret Anthony Johnston
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The real difference between the United States and other nations lies not in the words of the preamble to the…
— Harold H. Greene
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The galaxy is full of creatures that are nothing like us at all. We can try to understand them, and…
— John Jackson Miller
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We are rare and precious because we are alive, because we can think as well as we can. We are…
— Carl Sagan
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Men are rather beholden ... generally to chance or anything else, than to logic, for the invention of arts and…
— Francis Bacon
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