Dave Van Ronk Quotes
I cut myself off from the mainstream of jazz. It stood me in good stead later on, as a musician.Dave Van Ronk
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Whatever life lesson I'm going through at any point in my life, projects just somehow magically appear that help me work through it.
Victoria Clark -
Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.
Camille Paglia -
I'm not a really religious person, but those moments onstage feel like some sort of religious experience because no one holds back, especially 'Stay With Me' when I finish the show. It kind of turns into an anthem when I perform it live, and it feels like there's a lot of love in the room.
Sam Smith -
I feel at home in a lot of places, but I am truly an African-American.
Yaya DaCosta -
The big issue with rock stars becoming actors is that sometimes it's not believable, and vice versa with actors becoming rock stars. Sometimes just doesn't fit.
Larry Mullen, Jr. U2 -
Antonio Berardi is one of my good friends.
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
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I don't believe in strong-arming people.
Zachary Levi -
Real Madrid is the most important thing that happened to me, both as a footballer and as a person.
Zinedine Zidane -
You have to relish the challenge of television.
Laura Linney -
My schedulers keep getting driven crazy by the fact that they can't fit hikes in my schedule.
Gale Norton -
Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.
W. Eugene Smith -
Defeating racism, tribalism, intolerance and all forms of discrimination will liberate us all, victim and perpetrator alike.
Ban Ki-moon
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I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live through in order to endure.
Octavia E. Butler -
I do think from time to time that conceptual questions arise: What do we mean by equilibrium? What do we mean by this concept and that concept?
Edmund Phelps -
I grew up in Christianity. They preach a lot that you should get married and be a wife and be a virtuous woman and all of that. So I was so eager to do that, and I didn't really take the time I needed to grow into my own. And I ended up running into a really bad situation. I didn't even really date my ex-husband. We just kind of jumped into it.
La'Porsha Renae -
I loved wrestling in Philly. It was such an exciting time in my life. That really helped me grow and think differently. It was also just a lot of fun.
Daniel Bryan -
My mind-set is Munich. Most of my generation's is Vietnam.
Madeleine Albright -
I don't want to be submerged by depression.
Ingrid Betancourt
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Johns Hopkins introduced me to two defining events in my life: commitment to biomedical research and meeting my future wife, Mary.
Peter Agre -
Look in my face; my name is Might-have-been;I am also called No-more, Too-late, Farewell.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti -
It was then, I think, that I discovered that the best way of bringing a medieval subject home to my generation was not to be medieval in its treatment.
Laurence Housman -
I pay people very, very well - probably more than I have to. But that costs me less money in the long run because I'm not having to constantly train somebody. I pay them enough that they don't go seeking a higher scale at the next restaurant.
Paula Deen -
If our nation wants to reduce global warming, air pollution and energy instability, we should invest only in the best energy options. Nuclear energy isn't one of them.
Mark Z. Jacobson -
I cut myself off from the mainstream of jazz. It stood me in good stead later on, as a musician.
Dave Van Ronk