Ry Cooder Quotes

When I made the first album, I was 24, and at that age, you have nothing to say. I just played the music I loved and tried to do it justice.

Ry Cooder

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Texting is fingered speech. Now we can write the way we talk.

John McWhorter

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Getting Richard Norris his new face wasn't easy. For starters, doctors needed a donor who wasn't just a favorable blood match but also had the proper skeletal features and skin color - they calculated only a 14 percent chance they'd find one. Then there was the epic surgery that took a team of 150 people.

Jeanne Marie Laskas

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Considering the amount of information we're bombarded by, it's amazing if a song can transcend time.

Michael Bolton

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That's all baseball is, is numbers; it's run by numbers, averages, percentage and odds. Managers make their decisions based on the numbers.

Rollie Fingers

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I'm anything but confident.

Mike Nichols

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I strive to use references that may still make some kind of sense once our age has passed into history. That robs my writing of a certain connectedness to my time, but potentially might allow it to make sense to people who are not in this time.

Michel Faber

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A common denominator among big guys like me who are trying to take care of our health is that we're not getting enough sleep.

Michael Moore

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My wife is gorgeous and brilliant, and my son True is my best little buddy in the world.

Jason Kander

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The idea of trying to write sketches the same way we did on Saturday Night Live every day would be damn near impossible.

Chevy Chase

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As Obamacare devolves and starts to fall apart, what do you get? This big-government largesse that is involved in Obamacare, my fear is that it's going to devolve into a single-payer system, and we really can't afford to let that happen.

Chuck Fleischmann

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So I had a ghostwriter, they call them, or somebody who is an experienced writer, to help. I've got the ideas in my head, it's getting them properly on paper.

Bruce Boxleitner

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I love to play guitar. I've been writing my own songs on the axe since I was nine years old. I suck at leads.

Phil Anselmo

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