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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While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.
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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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It is only since linguistics has become more aware of its object of study, i.e. perceives the whole extent of it, that it is evident that this science can make a contribution to a range of studies that will be of interest to almost anyone.
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One thing I disliked about being a lawyer was billing for my time.
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If I could go anywhere, I'd love to visit Greece someday because it looks so beautiful, and I'd also love to go to Mexico.
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I never went to high school. I never really finished eighth grade. I was kicked out of seventh grade once and eighth grade twice. Mainly for not showing up and not doing it. Then I went to an alternative high school for part of what would have been ninth grade and part of what would have been 10th grade.
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I grew up hearing about the walking undead. I had a fascination with it as a child.
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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.
