Ry Cooder Quotes

If you're white working with non-white people, you will be branded as a colonialist by some people, regardless of your efforts or intentions.

Ry Cooder

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PeopleYouWhiteWillIntentions

When I was a school kid in Coventry, I used to put up anti-apartheid stickers.

Jerry Dammers

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I don't fret over lost time - I can always use the situations in a novel.

Jerzy Kosinski

TimeI CanLostAlwaysOverNovel

At this point, I wouldn't be able to digest meat, and I don't like eating things with faces.

Joely Fisher

EatingMeatPointThingsFacesAble

I've never had vocal training. No one could ever say that they helped me carve what my voice has become. It's just been more of self-training: me just continuously going into the studio every night and trying out different beats.

Jeremih

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Often if a picture is in trouble one way or another, there are ways to salvage it, through reshoots or whatever.

John Knoll

PictureTroubleWayWhateverThrough

I think that as I had children, I have five sons, and they got into video games and were the prime ages through the development of video games. It was so much fun seeing them play the games and seeing it through their eyes.

John Lasseter

ChildrenEyesFunVideo GamesThink

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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I once took a ride to the beach in L.A., and all along the shore there were all these so-called jazz places. And I saw these college guys and session players playing this fusion Muzak stuff. It was just a lot of notes, and the more notes they played, the more it kept them from expressing anything. So I came back home and got out my Zeppelin albums.

Jeff Buckley

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I can't read a computer screen and never use a calculator. It's all in my head and by hand.

Simon Reuben

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The ECB's interventions in sovereign bond markets should not be perceived or interpreted as a 'freebie' for governments. They are temporary.

Lucas Papademos

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I've seen my own blood and broken a few bones. I've been hit, which isn't an entirely bad thing, as at least you have a glimpse of the suffering endured by the people you are photographing. And in a sense, crumbling empires and war have been with me all my life.

Don McCullin

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Motion-picture studio floors used to be all wooden and not smooth at all. This was difficult when moving a camera around on a dolly.

Desi Arnaz

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