Ry Cooder Quotes
No second chances in the land of a thousand dances, the valley of ten million insanities.
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I always thought that one day I would be somebody. I would be successful in music, and I would have fans that cared about my music. At the same time, I really feel like an ordinary guy; I have been an ordinary guy forever.
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I grew up with Bond.
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To have this gold medal around my neck is an indescribable feeling. I'm the happiest person right now.
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They came out in a dim, damp basement - a generic sort of place, full of moulding boxes. 'You take me to the nicest places,' Claire said, and sneezed.
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Nice things are nicer than nasty ones.
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But you, you’ve always been the rain, the wind, inside my mind. I taste you when I sleep, when I wake, when I breathe.
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Life is islands of ecstasy in an ocean of ennui, and after the age of thirty land is seldom seen.
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We are in a period of searchers rather than of creators.
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The Silvertop and the Goldtop both had subtlety where it was needed but lots of definition as well. I liked the different voicings of the distortion/fuzz elements.
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The spirit of the gospel is in absolute disagreement with the spirit of the world.
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God sendeth cold after clothes.
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I'd still thought that everything I thought about that night-the shame, the fear-would fade in time. But that hadn't happened. Instead, the things that I remembered, these little details, seemed to grow stronger, to the point where I could feel their weight in my chest. Nothing, however stuck with me more than the memory of stepping into that dark room and what I found there, and how the light then took that nightmare and made it real.
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You do not know what she did not only to me but to the little children. She has tortured them, turned them against me, lied to them.
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I tell people that if I'm ignoring them, chances are I may not have heard them. I depend on hearing aids, but I've not found it a problem. I'm visually very aware!
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The fruit we wish to pick tomorrow lies hidden in the seed of today. The goals we are to read and the problems we are to solve tomorrow depend upon today's diligence, hope and faith, today's conviction of the almightiness of good.
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You can manicure a cat but can you caticure a man?
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No second chances in the land of a thousand dances, the valley of ten million insanities.
