Dave Van Ronk Quotes
I cut myself off from the mainstream of jazz. It stood me in good stead later on, as a musician.
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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.
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Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.
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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.
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I feel at home in a lot of places, but I am truly an African-American.
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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.
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I've lived in New York for a really long time.
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Antonio Berardi is one of my good friends.
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I don't believe in strong-arming people.
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Real Madrid is the most important thing that happened to me, both as a footballer and as a person.
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You have to relish the challenge of television.
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I don't know, a lot of people go crazy about 'Breaking Bad,' but I don't like the soap opera aspect of it and only following one character. I like the context to all of it, all the pieces, like 'The Wire.' It's more about the state of things; it's not about the narrative of a person.
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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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Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.
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There are all these scripts where the women, if they're working, are prostitutes and lawyers with an angry streak who'll kill you. It's a reaction to women leaving their men and men being angry about it and saying it on some subconscious level.
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Defeating racism, tribalism, intolerance and all forms of discrimination will liberate us all, victim and perpetrator alike.
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Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence; Madison wrote not only the United States Constitution, or at least most of it, but also the most searching commentary on it that has ever appeared. Each of them served as president of the United States for eight years. What they had to say to each other has to command attention.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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Giving public sanction to homosexual marriage ends up redefining marriage, and it's certain to harm children.
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The real middle class India that has always been looking for a voice that is its very own. I write about it because I belong to it.
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I desired as many as could to join together in fasting and prayer, that God would restore the spirit of love and of a sound mind to the poor deluded rebels in America.
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You can see neurosis from below - as a sickness - as most psychiatrists see it. Or you can understand it as a compassionate man might: respecting the neurosis as a fumbling and inefficient effort toward good ends.
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I cut myself off from the mainstream of jazz. It stood me in good stead later on, as a musician.
