Dave Van Ronk Quotes
If I do a piece in my living room, if I practice it - and I have the tapes to prove this - it's not going to be as good as doing the same piece in front of an audience.
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A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader.
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All those things you hear about networks trying to stifle creativity - CW lets creators create and gives us freedom.
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Who cares and remembers if my last film was a success? I need to work harder.
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My mom is just so good with fashion! She always tells me what looks good, what doesn't look good, and she gives me great advice.
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In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
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Highly functioning self-actualized people simply never imagine what it is that they don't wish to have as their reality.
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Even if you buy a Finnish, Korean or American phone - it will be Ericsson on the inside.
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My schedulers keep getting driven crazy by the fact that they can't fit hikes in my schedule.
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Reason cannot calm the storm of emotion, and emotion usually wins, until it settles down and allows reason to rise again and apologize on behalf of it.
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Although Ronald Reagan was somebody I disagreed with on most ideological things, he was a friend of mine, and he was a very, very likable man. Ronald Reagan, for instance, was maybe more able to get the very rich to do the right thing sometimes.
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I tend to like simple music. And clever, succinct lyrics. Songs that don't try to be more than they need to to be effective, to stir up something emotionally within you.
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I find Shakespeare terrifying. When Simon Russell Beale does a speech, I understand every word of it, but if I did the same speech, people would be going, 'Huh? What?'
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A big reason I'd spent my career as a writer and not a public speaker is that I am a person who refines my worldview in a silent room, waiting for my thoughts to arrange themselves on the screen before me.
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I dig science fiction, though it was never really my thing.
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I turned Compaq from a small company with troubles into a computer powerhouse. We can do the same at Intershop.
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I am always hearing from Israelis, 'Oh, CNN is anti-Israel,' or 'BBC is against us.' But no, they are reporting facts.
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I'm very much against war; I'm very much against terrorism of any kind. I find terrorism to be one of the most appalling things that can exist in society.
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We all have hourglass figures; your sand just settles in different places.
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When one is the type of writer who cares about the meaning of the historically specific setting, the history itself is not something that I would call backdrop. It's not window dressing for a timeless relationship about love and betrayal. For me, the setting and the specific history are active co-agents with me in trying to form the novel.
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I have decided in 2020 to run for president.
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I remember how much fun it was to be a child in the kibbutz.
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They say that truth is the first casualty of war. But there is another casualty as well: trust. As conflict escalates, trust between people and political leaders crumbles away as surely as night follows day.
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Balance is key. Balance is a virtue. Balance is next to godliness, maybe. We should all aspire to better balance. Too much of what is said in this world is one-sided, and we need more balance - in our speech, in our music, in our art, in everything.
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If I do a piece in my living room, if I practice it - and I have the tapes to prove this - it's not going to be as good as doing the same piece in front of an audience.
