Ray LaMontagne Quotes

It's so easy to get caught up in your own experiences. They can seem so important. But there are billions and billions of other experiences going on.

Ray LaMontagne

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Acting is actually private.

Joan Chen

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There were lots of smart black people at Harvard before Barack Obama, but none of them ever got to head up the law review. There has been a history of discrimination.

Andrew Young

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Before I made 'Sweetback,' I had a three-picture deal with Columbia and enough juice, if I was real clever with it, to proclaim that I wanted to do an independent film.

Melvin Van Peebles

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A new civilization was not to be improvised by a single mind.

John Lothrop Motley

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'Seven Sonatas,' with its flowing series of meetings between men and women in an identifiable emotional world, is in the mould of Jerome Robbins' glorious 'Dances at a Gathering.'

Robert Gottlieb

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I'm into clothes, but in a way that's related to wanting to walk into a film noir movie. You know, I love to go to vintage stores, but mostly it's stuff that I don't have anywhere to wear... I don't have the life that goes with the clothes.

Maureen Dowd

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Even on education, his one accomplishment, the Leave No Child Behind Act, and he has left it unfunded.

Sidney Blumenthal

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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Simone Weil

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I have always loved to skate, and that is all I wanted to do. Having my whole, entire career taken away from me by somebody else - not losing it myself - I do have blame, but when somebody takes your whole, entire life away from you, and you don't know what to do, it's like you're lost.

Tonya Harding

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Music, Rock and Roll music especially, is such a generational thing. Each generation must have their own music, I had my own in my generation, you have yours, everyone I know has their own generation.

Ronnie James Dio

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Pink is my favourite colour. I used to say my favourite colour was black to be cool, but it is pink - all shades of pink. If I have an accessory, it is probably pink.

Roxane Gay

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I grew up in a gym in Miami, the one where Muhammad Ali trained. I had 142 amateur fights and lost three.

Mickey Rourke

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