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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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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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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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.
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My mind-set is Munich. Most of my generation's is Vietnam.
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I always make music that is true to my spirit.
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Más llanto que llorar es ver llorar.
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I’m sure you have heard it said that appearance does not matter so much, and that it is what's on the inside that counts. This is, of course, utter nonsense, because if it were true then people who were good on the inside would never have to comb their hair or take a bath, and the whole world would smell even worse than it already does. -Lemony Snicket
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God bestows His blessings without discrimination. The followers of Jesus are children of God, and they should manifest the family likeness by doing good to all, even to those who deserve the opposite.
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I cut myself off from the mainstream of jazz. It stood me in good stead later on, as a musician.
