Ry Cooder Quotes
Beautiful tunes are all very good and fine, and great musicians are always great, but that alone isn't enough.
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Hizbullah is not a militia.
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Your best ideas, those eureka moments that turn the world upside down, seldom come when you're juggling emails, rushing to meet the 5 P.M. deadline or straining to make your voice heard in a high-stress meeting. They come when you're walking the dog, soaking in the bath or swinging in a hammock.
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Let us advance science to create a better world for all.
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What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed.
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The questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do.
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Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.
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I believe in civil liberties for homosexuals. I guess I'd have to say I'd draw the line at letting them teach in the schools.
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Do not share your inventions with many; share them only with the few who understand and love the sciences.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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Only very brave mouse makes nest in cat's ear.
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As a member of this court I am not justified in writing my private notions of policy into the Constitution, no matter how deeply I may cherish them or how mischievous I may deem their disregard.
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Cast changes are a hard thing. For two years, we had this little family. We weren't together when these changes were decided upon. It all happened during our hiatus.
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What is the meaning of the togetherness of the perceiving mind, in that peculiar modification of perceiving which makes it perceive not a star but a tree, and the tree itself, is a problem for philosophy.
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If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.
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As the Cold War melts into history, our first concern should be the preservation and extension of human rights and democracy.
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Really, truly, try to figure out what your palate is all about. If you've determined that you don't like dirty old stinky wine - old-world flavors - you probably like new-world fruit bombs. Stick to Shirazes and California Cabernets or Zinfandels.
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I think my whole generation's mission is to kill the cliche.
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I'm glad I'm Southern. I'm the Southerner who's very Southern in that she left to move to New York.
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There are all kinds of directors I want to work with and all kinds of films that I want to do.
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Put Israel back into international isolation ... and cause friction with the United States -- our great friend -- and hostility with Europe.
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There's great cars, and then there's Aston Martins. Same thing for the 1959 Les Paul - it's an authentic piece of art that can never truly be replicated, and its mysteries are special.
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It is good a philosopher should remind himself, now and then, that he is a particle pontificating on infinity.
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You know what your trouble is? You're the kind who always reads the handbook. Anything people build, any kind of technology, it's going to have some specific purpose. It's for doing something that somebody already understands. But if it's new technology, it'll open areas nobody's ever thought of before. You read the manual, man, and you won't play around with it, not the same way. And you get all funny when somebody else uses it to do something you never thought of.
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Beautiful tunes are all very good and fine, and great musicians are always great, but that alone isn't enough.
