Rachel Cohn Quotes
Lou's such an old punk he was around when the Ramones were junkie hustlers first and musicians second, when punk meant something other than a mass-marketing concept designed to help the bridge-and-tunnel crowd feel cool.
Quotes to Explore
-
I try and spend a lot of time with my kids. I try and have fun with my kids. I try to put father time in there.
-
There is so much to do in my house, in every little corner. It's just like anybody, it's like one step at a time. I try to decorate one space and a pipe breaks or whatever - you know how it is.
-
Any conception of human well-being you could plausibly have, the Taliban patently fails to maximize it.
-
I don't learn in a certain way, but I have other skills.
-
I was quite thin, and I didn't have to worry until I had my appendix out and a mysterious metabolic change occurred.
-
Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
-
I stay true to myself, my daughter. I just remember where I came from - I remember what I'm coming from - and then I remember why I do what I do.
-
Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
-
If I'm trying to rebound after a bad hole, I just go back to tempo and process and rhythm, and I cling to my routine.
-
I live with my family on the top of a hill in the country, and during the days, my house is quiet, save for the occasional excitement of the FedEx truck heading up the driveway. I write.
-
I can't watch a Mayweather fight. I don't find it exciting.
-
I might literally fall over dead if I meet Oprah Winfrey. I'm kind of joking, but I'm not confident that wouldn't happen.
-
So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
-
People are going to get older and young guys are going to come in and race and get more competitive.
-
I'm a private intellectual, not a public one.
-
I could sing in English before I could understand it because I phonetically learned it from the musicals.
-
Love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize and protect and comfort each other.
-
Everybody likes a compliment.
-
'Walking Dead' has done great on Netflix, but to pay for the full output deal just to get 'Walking Dead' didn't make sense.
-
But I knew - in the old days, if a song was a good song, I don't care if it was 'Yellow Submarine' or, you know, or 'The Times They Are a-Changin' or 'Don't Be Cruel', you knew it, you know? You heard that song, and you were talking about it, and you knew it.
-
Massachusetts is the first state in America to reach full adulthood. The rest of America is still in adolescence.
-
The focus on my wife and my children, it really helps me make sense of the music side of it somehow.
-
The Monster Ball is by nature a protest: A youth church experience to speak out and celebrate against all forms of discrimination + prejudice.
-
Lou's such an old punk he was around when the Ramones were junkie hustlers first and musicians second, when punk meant something other than a mass-marketing concept designed to help the bridge-and-tunnel crowd feel cool.
