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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My neighbors think I do nothing because I don't go to a job, which is fine and good.
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A president can't go to every memorial service.
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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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I always loved all kinds of music. I would watch musicals a lot as a kid, on TV, watch the Fred Astaire movies. I'd watch 'The Wizard of Oz.' I was a big Jerry Lewis fan, and they'd have these big bands and someone singing - some siren, or some guy singing some gorgeous song. I was always enamored of that style of music.
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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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I've never met a woman who thinks they've got a good enough figure - however perfect they look - which is sad, because no one else can see these perceived flaws; they're entirely internal.
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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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Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
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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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You look at how Barack Obama has had to conduct himself as president. It reminds me of Jackie Robinson, how he had to be very careful to reassure people that this was all right.
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That Sid Vicious was obviously a schizophrenic, kind of a mean one too.
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I was always on the go, and thought I was too busy to develop something like this. I thought at the time that diabetes went along with bad habits, but I was the last one in my family to eat junk food.
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Swimming for his life, a man does not see much of the country through which the river winds.
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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.
