Ry Cooder Quotes
You should try to do something if you think you can see your way clear.
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When you're not under a 'series regular' contract, and other jobs come up, you try to juggle everything.
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Of course it can be said of jails, too, that they try - by punishing the troublesome - to deter others. No doubt, in certain instances this deterrence actually works. But generally speaking it fails conspicuously.
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I used to kind of go for it, right? Like, I'd be the one who would say, 'All right, there's Kate Moss. I'm going to try to make out with her.'
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I get intrigued by a first lin and I write to find out why it means something to me. You make discoveries just the way the reader does, so you're simultaneously the writer and the reader.
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Language is me, in a way. Really, I feel it.
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I think my mission, if I could call it that, as a storyteller is to try and find ways to show how similar we are and not how different we are.
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If the world sees that we can defend our borders... then no one will try to come to Hungary illegally.
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Medicine is the means by which we poor feeble creatures try to keep from dying or aching.
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I try not to be in situations where I'm being grabbed at. For the most part, you can avoid them.
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Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest things in the nicest way.
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The only way you know what it is to be a boxer is to be one.
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You try not to become so emotionally attached to your character, but you do.
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I try to be very modest with what I do. I'm not a frivolous spender.
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You just try to learn and see what you can put in your repertoire, and that's what I try to do.
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Government can do best by simply getting out of the way.
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I am not attempting to preserve culture, or record actual events or stories. Instead I bow my head in gratitude to those storytellers who have gone before and paved a way for me play in their stomping grounds. Doubtless those who want to be offended, will - allowing me to make them happy, too, which pleases me as much as it pleases them.
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When we moved to L.A., I started going out for more commercials, and then one day they emailed me a movie script. The first thing I said was, 'No way. I love commercials.'
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There is a way to share an insight into your personal life without being classless, which is what I'm trying to do.
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I'm still enjoying discovering more designers and getting to play dress-up in a bigger way than I ever have before.
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He was kindhearted, in a way. You know the sort of kind heart: it made him uncomfortable more often than it made him do anything; and even when he did anything, it did not prevent him from grumbling, losing his temper and swearing (mostly to himself).
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Instead of reading a paper, we now read the news online. Instead of buying books at a store, we buy them on-line. What's so revolutionary? The Internet has mainly affected our leisure life.
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A democracy is predicated on an educated citizenry. You cannot have a democracy with people that are more interested in what Nicole Kidman is doing or whoever the latest fashion model is.
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You should try to do something if you think you can see your way clear.
