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'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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To understand God's thoughts we must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.
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When you are young, you are a little naive.
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Just the words and melody - that's what moves your emotions.
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To do the Ozzfest again would be great. I'd like to finish with a final Sabbath album. You always feel that it is still a challenge.
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but one loses, as one grows older, something of the lightness of one's dreams; one begins to take life up in both hands, and to care more for the fruit than the flower, and that is no great loss perhaps.
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I'm a very, very stubborn man.
