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.
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If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.
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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.'
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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.
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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.
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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.'
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I believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees.
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Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.
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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.
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The power structures in fashion used to be limited to western Europe and the States. That's changing.
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Secretly we're all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be.
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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.
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Although, you know it's been really nice to wear the Olympic kit, I'm looking forward to wearing non-sports, feminine clothes.
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A dark unfathom'd tide Of interminable pride - A mystery, and a dream, Should my early life seem.
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If I believe that I am right, I will take it to the end of the earth until I am proven right.
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I've never seen an obese person who has said, 'I am well in my mind.' Happiness stops food being a compensation.
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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.
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When there were financial difficulties they still managed to provide us with music and art lessons.
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I remember, I remember how my childhood fleeted by. The mirth of its December, and the warmth of its July.
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It is my personal conviction that almost any one of the newborn states of the world would far rather embrace Communism or any other form of dictatorship than acknowledge the political domination of another government, even though that brought to each citizen a far higher standard of living.
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All forms of sexual loving become acceptable if the lovers wear togas or wolfskins.
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I hope they're going to learn, and as a result of our response, that it isn't going to work. They're not going to change our life, they're not going to have us throw out our Constitution, and they're not going to chase us out of the Middle East.
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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.
