Dave Van Ronk Quotes
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Don't hate me, but I've always been skinny. I got lucky.
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Throughout my life I have always been amazed that people couldn't listen to other people, that they couldn't hear their best intent, that there seemed to be an enormous need to demonize.
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I started imagining this whole different world. It was a society of musicians, a family I hoped I could belong to one day.
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If I still lived in Russia, I'd be dead... or a really effective oligarch.
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I grow up in the States, in Miami, but I was born in Guatemala, and my father's Cuban, and in 'Body of Lies,' I played an Iraqi.
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The way I look at it is everybody should have the right to get married, if they so choose.
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I am not a puppet. I was not made by the West to go to the West or to any other country.
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I think the only safe medium are books, because people like to hold books in their hand.
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I've lost a lot of teeth and square yards of hide. But I've never lost my self-respect, and I've kept what I find in few men of my age - my enthusiasm.
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I think something that's very relevant in real life and that they don't portray enough on TV is that when you think 'Christian,' you think 'goody two shoes' - they have to look a certain way and do certain things - and it's just not true.
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If a man is tongue-tied, don't laugh at him, but, rather, feel pity for him, as you would for a man with broken legs.
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I've always written about social concerns. My first book was about Spanish Harlem.
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You don't need to follow trends to be stylish.
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Whenever you bring up women's internal workings, guys want to change the subject. Unless, of course, they're trying to change the laws.
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All ballet, all reading, all music. That was my world, my inner world.
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People in D.C. are so psyched when anyone dramatizes them in an exciting way. They're a lot more open to looking at the nastier side of themselves than the media is.
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Humans have a light side and a dark side, and it's up to us to choose which way we're going to live our lives. Even if you start out on the dark side, it doesn't mean you have to continue your journey that way. You always have time to turn it around.
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I always carry a Tom Ford lipstick and Tachta face blotters to get me through the day.
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Research shows that parents are the single biggest influence on children - if you are worried about your teen and drugs, talk to them.
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I don't really write any of my raps down. The same, Kanye don't write any of his raps down. Common. It's easy that way. For me, personally, I figure I will lose some of the inspiration in the time of me writing it down, or I'll say it a certain way because I wrote it a certain way.
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You do not know what things you set in motion, he said. No man can know. No prophet foresee. The consequences of an act are often quite different from what one would guess. You must be sure that the intention in your heart is large enough to contain all wrong turnings, all disappointments. Do you see? Not everything has such value.
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Advertising is totally unnecessary. Unless you hope to make money.
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I'm a very, very stubborn man.
