Ry Cooder Quotes

You have to be around people you trust; otherwise you can't do anything - you're afraid, you're paranoid, and you can't do any work.

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• Films are meant solely to provide entertainment. There are no lessons to be learnt and and inferences to be drawn. Has anyone become dutiful and law abiding after seeing a film that espouses these very virtues? Films can do no more than influence fashion, decor, and hairstyle trends.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • Law
  • Fashion
  • Influence

• If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.

  

  Yann Martel
  • You
  • Rules
  • Fiction

• I was a dancer when I got discovered, and I started working immediately. I started being in commercials and doing guest star roles. My first big thing, which happened maybe six months after being discovered, was 'Bring It On: All or Nothing.'

  

  Francia Raisa
  • Star
  • Doing
  • Working

• Dolomite is a whole mess of stuff, a mixture. It gets characterised as 'a stuff' because of the interest of oil geologists. It would have been a nonentity were it not for its applications.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Interest
  • Oil
  • Mess

• If the next thing I do is not necessarily filling the role of 'the future of journalism,' it'll probably be whatever is making me happiest, and that's enough for me.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Future
  • Me
  • Journalism

• I've been reading titles from IDW for probably as long as they've been in existence. 'Ninja Turtles' is one of my all-time favorite properties ever. I also love, love, love 'Locke & Key.' I also love some of the things they do with pre-existing properties like 'Transformers' and 'Ghostbusters.'

  

  Taran Killam
  • Time
  • Existence
  • Favorite

• In 1989, I was on Tiananmen Square with the students, living in their makeshift tents and joining their jubilant singing of the Internationale. In the two decades since, each time that I have gone back, visions from those days seem to return with increasing persistence.

  

  Ma Jian
  • Time
  • Singing
  • Persistence

• I believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Believe
  • Society
  • I Believe

• Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.

  

  Sam Levenson
  • Motivational
  • Keep Going

• I think women of our generation went through Cultural Revolution, went through hardship, coming from nowhere, and suddenly see China's amazing opportunity. So women just seized the opportunity.

  

  Zhang Xin
  • Women
  • Opportunity
  • Amazing

• The power structures in fashion used to be limited to western Europe and the States. That's changing.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Power
  • Fashion
  • Changing

• Secretly we're all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • More
  • Little
  • Absurd

• I have only had positive interactions in relation to my impressions of people, which I'm happy because I do them with love, and I hope that the people who I do them of really like them.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • People
  • Happy
  • Hope

• Although, you know it's been really nice to wear the Olympic kit, I'm looking forward to wearing non-sports, feminine clothes.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Nice
  • Sports
  • Clothes

• A dark unfathom'd tide Of interminable pride - A mystery, and a dream, Should my early life seem.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Life
  • Dream
  • Dark

• If I believe that I am right, I will take it to the end of the earth until I am proven right.

  

  Bill Ackman
  • Believe
  • Earth

• I've never seen an obese person who has said, 'I am well in my mind.' Happiness stops food being a compensation.

  

  Pierre Dukan
  • Mind
  • Food

• The mission of my company is to bring three things to the world through entertainment: joy, happiness, and change. We must believe our precious time is being used to make a product worth more than anything else we could be doing.

  

  Charlie Ebersol
  • Time
  • World
  • Believe

• A Christian is the dwelling place of the living God. He created me, he chose me, He came to dwell in me, because he wanted me. Now that you have known how much God is in love with you it is but natural that you spend the rest of your life radiating that love.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Christian
  • Wanted
  • Natural

• It could be that all awful dictators are frustrated artists - Mao with his poetry and Mussolini with his monuments. Stalin was once a journalistic hack, and I can personally testify to how frustrated they are. Pol Pot left a very edgy photo collection behind. And Osama seems quite interested in video.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Poetry
  • Very
  • I Can

• I'm always trying to make myself laugh. I'm the most enthusiastic audience I'm likely to find, so if it doesn't make me smile then it probably won't work on you. The jokes that only make me shrug get cut.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Myself

• The attempt to live that way, the attempt to treat everybody - it fails all the time - but the attempt to treat people as equals is a good attempt. It's a very good attempt. And there have been very few governments that have come anywhere near it in the past. The Greeks began to, the Romans began to - they both failed.

  

  W. S. Merwin
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• The adult fiction and writing for children portions of my MFA program were kept very separate, and there was a stigma around those 'kid people.'

  

  Rebecca Serle
  • People
  • Program
  • Separate

• You have to be around people you trust; otherwise you can't do anything - you're afraid, you're paranoid, and you can't do any work.

  

  Ry Cooder Buena Vista Social Club
  • People
  • Work
  • Trust