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Dave Van Ronk Quotes

When you're working in front of an audience, you have incentive to excel.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: June 30, 1936 - February 10, 2002

Topics

You Audience Excel Incentive Working

Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone.

Money Rich Ancestors Over Gone Left

I get a certain feeling when I go to Lambeau field in Green Bay. Soldier field in Chicago is special to me. Those are the places that I really like. The stadiums.

Me Green Feeling Go Chicago Special

New York City has finally hired women to pick up the garbage, which makes sense to me, since, as I've discovered, a good bit of being a woman consists of picking up garbage.

Good Women Woman New York City Me

I now have Grit Scale scores from thousands of American adults. My data provide a snapshot of grit across adulthood. And I've discovered a strikingly consistent pattern: grit and age go hand in hand. Sixty-somethings tend to be grittier, on average, than fifty-somethings, who are in turn grittier than forty-somethings, and so on.

Angela Duckworth

Age American Data Grit Go Hand

I think that anything that begins to give people a sense of their own worth and dignity is God.

John Shelby Spong

God People Think Worth Dignity Own

I hope that basketball gains momentum and kids understand that you can actually make a living from it. Not just the N.B.A. You can get a scholarship, a free degree - like, no student loan you have to pay off. That's huge in life. Once they realize that in New Zealand, I hope they get inspired.

Life Hope Basketball Free You New

If God dropped acid, would he see people?

God People See Acid Would He

Peter Chelsom and Edgar Wright are totally different directors and worlds apart, but both really accomplished directors who are certain of how they want to make a film.

Want Film Different Who Accomplished

We Americans have always felt a special kinship with the future.

Future Special Always Felt Kinship

I think that to explore the uncomfortable and the politically incorrect is the job of the artist.

Job Think Uncomfortable Artist

I'd crawl over broken glass for Elle MacPherson or Cindy Crawford.

Broken Glass Over Crawl Broken Glass

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

Optimism You Used Get Pessimism

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