Dave Van Ronk Quotes
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I love edgy comedy. 'Coming to America' still gets me and 'Friday.' I watch old Richard Pryor stand-up on VHS, too.
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If you really think that ambition, power, lust, desire are not as applicable in the media as in politics or on Wall Street or anywhere else, you're deluding yourself.
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Make the hard ones look easy and the easy ones look hard.
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I don't think more concentration is required for Robert De Niro to do what he does as for Jim Carrey to do what he does.
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All I've done is my job, and I intend to continue doing it. And I'm not especially worried about the criticism that comes from the bench.
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'Superbad' and 'Remember the Titans' - two movies I can watch over and over again. I watch 'Superbad' whenever I need to laugh.
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Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.
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Initially, I wanted to do films with A-list actors when I was struggling. I was hoping that I could also get that platform where I'm launched with Shah Rukh Khan, Salman Khan or Aamir Khan... and with them my career could also start, but it didn't happen. And then came 'Queen.'
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My first direct encounter with the military was when I joined ROTC as a graduate student, although my father, who served in the U.S. Marine Corps, can trace the military service in our family all the way back to the Revolutionary War.
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What looks like enjoyment is the sneer of contempt. That's not a smile.
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Our principal role as designers is to accelerate new ideas and the adoption of new ideas.
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There is progress whether ye are going forward or backward! The thing is to move!
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We are living in a world which seems to be founded on the refusal to reflect.
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How proud upon your quarterdeck you stand,Conductor, Captain of the mighty bus!Like some Columbus you survey the Strand,A calm newcomer in a sea of fuss.
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Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
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I have a computer screen near my seat where I monitor the overall health of the vehicle and pick up any problems that might be occurring early on or once we see any kind of a malfunction or anything unusual that's happening, we can look at the data and figure out what that is.
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No matter where I'm going, I always have sunglasses, a book, and some gum in my carry-on.
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Life is too complex to compress into soundbites. Every situation is different.
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My responsibility is to try to tell true stories. To me a true story is always hopeful, but never simply, uncomplicatedly happy.
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There is a dessert dish in Austria called Kaiserschmarrn - it's kind of like a sweet raisin pancake with eggs and sugar. It's definitely not something I can eat often, but if I've done well at a race, sometimes that's my celebration treat!
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Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
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When you smoke ganja you don't want to war.
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When you're working in front of an audience, you have incentive to excel.
