Ry Cooder Quotes

I always have felt that most people don't have the first idea about what musicians, in the traditional sense - I don't mean in the modern media fake way, but traditionally - what they went through, what their lives were like.

Ry Cooder

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I think I'm right-brained, incapable of managing my way out of a brown paper bag.

Jeremy Grantham

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I love British voicing and British humour in general. I'm a huge Ricky Gervais fan.

McG

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I spent two weeks prancing around a studio in Queens in my underwear with nine other guys. They were long days. But what the hell, it was Calvin Klein.

Michael Bergin

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The Jug Band was exactly what I wanted to do, and it wasn't my idea.

John Sebastian

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For the record, I am not an admitted homosexual, nor am I a homosexual, though I do know the lyrics to every show tune ever written, which might perhaps account for the confusion.

John Podhoretz

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We, like the people of Israel, would like to think we get to name God. By naming God, we hope to get the kind of god we need; that is, a god after our own likeness.

Stanley Hauerwas

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There are a lot of very flamboyant and outlandish people and attention-seekers in L.A., and I think that's what makes L.A. appealing. A lot of people are attracted to come here to do things and make things happen and the city seems to attract larger-than-life characters.

Roman Coppola

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A lot of people will always say, 'I really know nothing about the ancient world.' But there's lots and lots of things people know. Partly, they've been encouraged to think they're ignorant about it. In some ways, the job to do is show people that they know much more than they'd like to admit.

Mary Beard

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A candidate is not going to suddenly change once they get into office. Just the opposite, in fact. Because the minute that individual takes that oath, they are under the hottest, harshest light there is. And there is no way to hide who they really are.

Michelle Obama

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The thing I was attracted to as a little girl was Kirk, Bones and Spock, and their utter loyalty. There's nothing more powerful than that.

Jolene Blalock

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If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

Booker T. Washington

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It's taken me a long time to learn how to not try to win. I've been trying to win too badly. I feel like I've underachieved.

Brooks Koepka

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