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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Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.
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I can see through almost any scam, especially one perpetrated by the federal government. I can see through it... they can't pull the wool over my eyes, it's absolutely freakin' impossible to pull the wool over my eyes about the government.
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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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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.
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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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Suicide isn't cowardly. I'll tell you what's cowardly; treating people so badly that they want to end their lives.
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Loving one another isn’t enough to make a relationship last. The real glue that holds a couple (or friends or family) together is the effort both put into helping others who are in need of financial, health, personal or emotional assistance. Today, sustain your connection to a loved one by finding ways you both can help others, with a genuine heart.
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It is tricky because I do wear a lot of vintage on the red carpet, and usually when I'm getting ready, I'll say, 'We need to make sure that I don't look like I'm in a Scorsese film today.' Sometimes I do something a little bit more modern with my hair. You have to mix it up.
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I'm a very, very stubborn man.
