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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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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James Joyce was a synthesizer, trying to bring in as much as he could. I am an analyzer, trying to leave out as much as I can.
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The Internet gives us everything and forces us to filter it not by the workings of culture, but with our own brains. This risks creating six billion separate encyclopedias, which would prevent any common understanding whatsoever.
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You initially become funny as a kid because you're looking for attention and love. Psychologists think that's all to do with mother abandonment. I think John Cleese has his depressions, and Terry Gilliam's the same. All of us together make one completely insane person.
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Never forget that it is we New Yorkers and New Englanders who have the monopoly of whatever oxygen there is in the American continent.
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I love life. I think it's fantastic. Sometimes it deals hard things, and when it deals great things, you have to seize them.
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When I'm playing Big Momma, it's so much work that all I want to do, when I'm finished, is go back home and just relax and study my lines and get ready for the next day.
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Beautiful tunes are all very good and fine, and great musicians are always great, but that alone isn't enough.