Dave Van Ronk Quotes
They basically said that if I didn't show up for school they'd mark me present, they wouldn't send the truant officer after me. At 16 I enrolled in something called continuing education. Once a month I'd go out to Jamaica, but I didn't take it seriously.
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I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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When you're in your early 20s your love life seems to explode every 20 minutes or so. By the time you've reached your thirties, it is every five or ten years.
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Ah, sweet Content, where doth thine harbour hold.
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I don't get bothered by fans.
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To do a really good interview, you have to be truly interested in the person.
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I've only chosen films that offered me something concrete, even if it is less than what I get to do in the South.
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I was bulimic and anorexic for a while, just hating my body. As an actress, I was never thin enough, never pretty enough. My boobs weren't big enough.
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It would be a foolish high representative who worked that way.
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When team members trust each other and know that everyone is capable of admitting when they're wrong, then conflict becomes nothing more than the pursuit of truth or the best possible answer.
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I think feminism's a bit misinterpreted. It was about casting off all gender roles. There's nothing wrong with a man holding a door open for a girl. But we sort of threw away all the rules, so everybody's confused. And dating becomes a sloppy, uncomfortable, unpleasant thing.
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The potential for regional conflict in the absence of an internationally active America is real.
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Climate change is obviously happening and there is obviously a man-made contribution.
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Once again, Pat Robertson leaves us speechless with his insensitivity and arrogance.
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Panic is a horrible thing.
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There is inspiration all around us.
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It's very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That's my rule.
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I don't like sitting at a table that's too large, where everyone is too far apart. That's a party killer.
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The inexorable compulsion of all things is towards health or destruction, life or death, and we hasten our joys or our woes to the logical extreme. It is urgent, therefore, that we be joyous if we wish to live.
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On an average day, I have two things to read in my purse: a book and a play.
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I think any real one-sheet for an album would say, 'Well, here's what I've been doing.' And that would be it.
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It is faith alone that justifies, but faith that justifies can never be alone, though one is justified by faith alone, the faith which justifies is never in fact alone.
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They basically said that if I didn't show up for school they'd mark me present, they wouldn't send the truant officer after me. At 16 I enrolled in something called continuing education. Once a month I'd go out to Jamaica, but I didn't take it seriously.
