Ry Cooder Quotes
You should try to do something if you think you can see your way clear.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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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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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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One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.
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I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure.
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The way God has been thought of for thousands of years is no longer convincing; if anything is dead, it can only be the traditional thought of God.
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The tree is made by nature, mathematics by people. And combining the two is creating this beautiful alliance between humanity and nature. That's why my forests are mathematical expansion systems, all of them.
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I invented my life because I wasn't pleased with it.
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Anybody who dedicates himself to exploring the human condition, there's always a detached eye that's watching. In any situation, a little part of me is observing it, to see if there are any raw materials to create something else later.
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I can be more cold than people would like me to be.
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You should try to do something if you think you can see your way clear.
