Nathaniel Rateliff Quotes
I've always been trying to write songs that hit you in the stomach but ones that make people feel like things will be just fine.
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I get asked to comment a lot on inequality in cycling, but for me it has never been an issue. Everything has always been equal on the track, and the male and female riders are all part of the same team, and we all mix freely.
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I didn't make any friends in New York by insisting on moving the league headquarters to Cincinnati. The fact was that my son Bill was in school. His mother had passed away, and I didn't want to take the boy away from his school and to a strange city.
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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He who gives love, receives love.
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I saw Mercury Prize-winners Alt-J for the first time recently, touring their debut album 'An Awesome Wave,' and I'm still riding the high: they're the most musically dynamic and exciting band to have poured tune into my lug holes live since Bellowhead.
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What's lost in this whole debate, unfortunately, is that Social Security is not a giveaway where we take money to give to other people. It's a contract with the government... that's worked for 75 years. It's the most successful government program that we've ever had.
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Gun owners and non-gun owners alike agree on expanding background checks, making gun trafficking a serious crime with stiff penalties, making it illegal for all stalkers and all domestic abusers to buy guns, and expanding mental health resources so the mentally ill find it easier to receive treatment than to buy firearms.
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If there is the right opportunity for us to have a big oil play in Congo or somewhere else, we will definitely go for it.
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No one's gonna give a damn in July if you lost a game in March.
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Like all readers, I want my limits to be drawn by my own sensibilities, not by my melanin count.
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One hazard of our job on TV is people are always checking us out and noting every pound we've gained or haven't quite lost.
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God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
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One of the side benefits of staying in the closet is you can have a much bigger career.
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When you write for a comic series, many superheroes have 60 or some years of history that you are coming into.
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I wasn't naturally drawn to fashion when I was younger but with my work I'm so exposed to what's out there that I'm hoping my style has become a little more sophisticated.
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Some artists get so comfortable now after even one or two albums and think, 'I'm the biggest artist in the world,' but it's like, yeah, you are for now, but you've gotta work so that you're remembered further, and that's what I'm trying to do.
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I think '80s pop music subconsciously informs what I'm doing.
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Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.
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The English people think they are free; they are greatly deceived; they are free only during the election of members of Parliament.
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My grandma told me never, ever, ever to use soap on my face. But I do use lotion.
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Sometimes I feel like I have a dozen different people inside of me. I've always been that way, and I've always written stuff down.
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To me, 'Chopped' is a great platform for championing great causes.
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I moved to Nashville with the same kind of mindset that I had in L.A., and that is to make sure you don't get outworked by anybody and make sure you're always writing songs and take every opportunity to play that you can.
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I've always been trying to write songs that hit you in the stomach but ones that make people feel like things will be just fine.
