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.

  

  Victoria Clark
  • Life
  • Work
  • Help

• Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Men
  • Manhood
  • Sensitivity

• 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
  • Live
  • Experience
  • Moments

• I feel at home in a lot of places, but I am truly an African-American.

  

  Yaya DaCosta
  • Home
  • Places
  • African-American

• 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
  • Rock
  • Sometimes
  • Stars

• I've lived in New York for a really long time.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Time
  • Long
  • New York

• Antonio Berardi is one of my good friends.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Good Friends

• I don't believe in strong-arming people.

  

  Zachary Levi
  • People
  • Believe
  • Strong

• Real Madrid is the most important thing that happened to me, both as a footballer and as a person.

  

  Zinedine Zidane
  • Important
  • Real
  • Me

• You have to relish the challenge of television.

  

  Laura Linney
  • You
  • Challenge
  • Television

• 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.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • People
  • Character
  • Bad

• My schedulers keep getting driven crazy by the fact that they can't fit hikes in my schedule.

  

  Gale Norton
  • Crazy
  • Driven
  • Schedule

• I generally wake up at 4:30, have breakfast No. 1, then get to the pool by 5 a.m.

  

  Natalie Coughlin
  • Up
  • Breakfast
  • Pool

• 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
  • Small
  • Best
  • Photography

• 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.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Men
  • Women
  • Angry

• While I was writing 'Stick Out Your Tongue' in Beijing, the police began knocking on my door again. As soon as I finished the book, I moved to Hong Kong so that I could work undisturbed on my next novel.

  

  Ma Jian
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Book

• Defeating racism, tribalism, intolerance and all forms of discrimination will liberate us all, victim and perpetrator alike.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Will
  • Racism
  • Discrimination

• 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.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • Attention
  • Constitution
  • Independence

• I spent so many years with people saying, 'Hey, you're like America's boyfriend!'

  

  Luke Wilson
  • People
  • America
  • Boyfriend

• Every time is a learning experience, and you pick up a little bit, and you learn things and try not to repeat them the next time.

  

  Drew Pomeranz
  • Up
  • Time
  • Experience

• I have four kids. They are two years apart, and contraception has been very, very good to me.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Good
  • Kids
  • Me

• There's so many good comic actors that you just take the best of and try and run with it yourself. Try and bring a little bit of yourself to it, too.

  

  Domhnall Gleeson
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• My hairdresser in the U.K., Adam Reed, has his own line, Percy and Reed, and it's really good. And I use Moroccan Oil and Kerastase as well.

  

  Ellie Goulding
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• 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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