Dave Van Ronk Quotes
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Central bankers have had enormous responsibilities thrust on them to compensate, essentially, for the failings of the political system. And my worry is we don't have sufficient tools to do that, but we're not willing to say it.
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I wish more people felt that photography was an adventure the same as life itself and felt that their individual feelings were worth expressing. To me, that makes photography more exciting.
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I hate negative ads in general.
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When I was a kid, like 14 or 15, I played with the waiters from the hotel, 'cause that was the best game. And these guys, they'd let me play. And they were black guys.
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I get recognized by some people in my community, but not a lot. In fact, they would say, 'What do you do?' And I would say, 'Well, I did 'The Bernie Mac Show.'' And they would say, 'Oh, really? Well, do you know so-and-so?' And I'd say, 'Yeah, I hired them. I was the boss!' They don't believe it.
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Give me a child and I'll shape him into anything.
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Yeah, but there's nobody who represents romance to me like Cary Grant.
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My mother was 45 when she had me, so when I was in high school my parents were the same age as my friends' grandparents.
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I really enjoy being an actor!
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Some critics have been very harsh. That's okay. I like honest criticism.
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Don't we all just really try to fake it well?
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If I become so convinced that ‘I’m always right,’ the logical conclusion of that often ends up being great cruelty and great violence.
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What is nonmeasurable and nonpredictable will remain nonmeasurable and nonpredictable ... no matter how much hate mail I get.
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For, as blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.
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Deep in the secret chambers of my heartI muse my life-long hate, and without flinchI bear it nobly as I live my part.
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'Bunk' is better than 'Wheel of Fortune' because we have a wheel, just like them, but our wheel is purposeless. It doesn't do anything. It just spins for no reason. Which is nice because it frees our wheel up to really pursue its dream: becoming a professional paddlewheel.
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You've got to coach worrying about your entire team: whether that gets you a championship or whether that gets you fired. I think it allows you to coach free. You're coaching with freedom because you know you're doing what you think is right.
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To explore technology for me is something that I have to do. Otherwise, I feel completely left in the back... abandoned.
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And therefore, Uncle, though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe that [Christmas] has done me good, and will do me good; and I say, God bless it!
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There's times when one play makes the whole difference, one calls makes the whole difference. And tonight it was that call.
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Supporting drama for young people is close to my heart.
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If religion does not make us better people, it will make us very much worse. And of all the bad men who have lived, the religious "bad man" is the worst of all.
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My uncle and my grandfather both worked in the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
