Dave Van Ronk Quotes

I'm a very, very stubborn man.

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• Don't hate me, but I've always been skinny. I got lucky.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Hate
  • Me
  • Always

• 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.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • People
  • Life
  • Best

• I started imagining this whole different world. It was a society of musicians, a family I hoped I could belong to one day.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • World
  • Different
  • Family

• If I still lived in Russia, I'd be dead... or a really effective oligarch.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
  • Dead
  • Russia
  • Lived

• 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.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Up
  • Father
  • Lies

• I'm an ordinary Tasmanian like everybody else, and I have weight issues; I have issues around finding the time to do the exercise and things, but in my role as Health Minister, and in my role as myself as well, I have to look after my own health.

  

  Lara Giddings
  • Time
  • Health
  • Myself

• The way I look at it is everybody should have the right to get married, if they so choose.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Look
  • Choose
  • Married

• I am not a puppet. I was not made by the West to go to the West or to any other country.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • Country
  • West
  • Puppet

• I think the only safe medium are books, because people like to hold books in their hand.

  

  H. G. Bissinger
  • People
  • Think
  • Hand

• 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.

  

  Rabbit Maranville
  • Men
  • Age
  • Respect

• 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.

  

  Samuel Larsen
  • Life
  • Real
  • True

• 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.

  

  Abraham Cahan
  • Man
  • Broken
  • Laugh

• I've always written about social concerns. My first book was about Spanish Harlem.

  

  Dan Wakefield
  • Book
  • Always
  • First

• You don't need to follow trends to be stylish.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • You
  • Need
  • Follow

• Whenever you bring up women's internal workings, guys want to change the subject. Unless, of course, they're trying to change the laws.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Up
  • Women
  • Trying

• All ballet, all reading, all music. That was my world, my inner world.

  

  Natalia Makarova
  • World
  • Music
  • Reading

• 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.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • People
  • Media
  • Looking

• 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.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Up
  • Time
  • Live

• I've always been able to recount things, and I have a really good memory about dialog and what people have said before and this and that.

  

  Carol Burnett
  • People
  • Good

• Is it stupidity or is it moral cowardice which leads men to continue professing a creed that makes self-sacrifice a cardinal principle, while they urge the sacrificing of others, even to the death, when they trespass against us? Is it blindness, or is it an insance inconsistency, which makes them regard as most admirable the bearing of evil for the benefit of others, while they lavish admiration on those who, out of revenge, inflict great evils in return for small ones suffered? Surely our barbarian code of right needs revision, and our barbarian standard of honour should be somewhat changed.

  

  Herbert Spencer
  • Evil
  • Moral
  • Sacrifice

• The new plastic idea cannot, therefore, take the form of a natural or concrete representation, although the latter does always indicate the universal to a degree, or at least conceals it within.

  

  Piet Mondrian

• You know what’s best for you, and you know what will make you happy.

  

  Sara Canning
  • Happy

• The twelve months... Snowy, Flowy, Blowy, Showery, Flowery, Bowery, Hoppy, Croppy, Droppy, Breeze, Sneezy, Freezy.

  

  George F. R. Ellis
  • Months
  • Flowery

• I'm a very, very stubborn man.

  

  Dave Van Ronk