Ry Cooder Quotes

The environment is rarely put on tape, or if it is, it's so abstract that most people never realize it. They just don't know what it means. But if you can show it to them, then that's what becomes the main instrument.

Ry Cooder Buena Vista Social Club

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• I want to break down some of the stigma associated with mental illness.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Want
  • Down
  • Mental Illness

• I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.

  

  Aaron Douglas
  • Guy
  • Man
  • Friend

• Whatever they did for democracy, the U.S. interventions in the Middle East and the vaunted Arab Spring have proved to be pure hell for Arab Christians.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Democracy
  • Spring
  • Hell

• Time is important to me because I want to sing long enough to leave a message. I'm used to singing in churches where nobody would dare stop me until the Lord arrives!

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • Time
  • Long
  • Important

• Math is one of my favorite subjects.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Math
  • Favorite
  • Subjects

• We asked our friends and relations to lend us their children, and, because we lived in London, children loved to come and stay for their half-term holidays.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Children
  • Friends
  • Holidays

• Against barbarity, poetry can resist only by confirming its attachment to human fragility like a blade of grass growing on a wall while armies march by.

  

  Mahmoud Darwish
  • Growing
  • Poetry
  • Wall

• Grant us a brief delay; impulse in everything is but a worthless servant.

  

  Caecilius Statius
  • Everything
  • Servant
  • Delay

• I met a number of young, striving, enterprising people in cities like Aligarh and Hubli. But the mental landscape of these towns is out of sync with their reality. Many of these towns are hellholes.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • People
  • Reality
  • Landscape

• I hate birthdays. I thought that I only hated my own birthday, and then I realized that I hate my children's birthdays too.

  

  Samantha Bee
  • Children
  • Hate
  • Birthday

• When you constantly revisit things, it's hard to know if you're freezing in time or if you're a brilliant adult who's working through it. I think about that in therapy, talking about the same things over and over again.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Time
  • Think
  • Same

• Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

  

  Edmond de Goncourt
  • Love
  • Book
  • Today

• While women may look different, as some wear suits and others wear saris, or some cover their hair while others wear their hair loose, women need to stand together because they all face the central point of discrimination, although the extremity of which may be different from Kigali to Kabul.

  

  Zainab Salbi
  • Different
  • Women
  • May

• Every state that addresses climate change emboldens the others, just as shifting public attitudes embolden politicians and, arguably, the court system.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Change
  • Climate Change

• I play the piano and have been playing since I was 7, mainly classical Chopin, Beethoven, Mozart.

  

  Kiana Tom

• I'm from an Irish Catholic family.

  

  Bonnie Hunt
  • Family
  • Catholic
  • Irish

• No one who has experienced facing a screaming, boiling, hysterical audience can avoid feeling shivers in the spine. It's a thin line between celebration and menace.

  

  Agnetha Faltskog
  • Feeling
  • Celebration

• President Trump proclaimed 'America First' from the inauguration stage. As an American Jew and daughter of immigrants, that slogan makes me shiver.

  

  Jan Schakowsky
  • American
  • America
  • Daughter

• 'The Descent,' 'Dog Soldiers,' those films, I've loved for years, and the tones of those.

  

  Matt Ryan
  • Dog

• I'm happy to work when I've worked, and you've got to take the hard times with the good times. But there are times where I'm not as financially set as one might assume. So you have concerns about, 'Wow, I have this level of notoriety and... I better get a job.'

  

  David Eigenberg
  • Good
  • Work
  • Job

• You will never go wrong with actually photographing process. It's primitive. Humans love to see the bipedal animal in us finish things. We just like it!

  

  Debra Granik
  • Animal

• I know that in my own personal life, the people who I have dated who are funny can get away with a lot more than the people who aren't.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • People
  • Life
  • Funny

• Force me to choose my best book, and I always come back to 'Gorilla.' It was the first time I felt I understood what picture books could do.

  

  Anthony Browne
  • Time
  • Book
  • Picture

• The environment is rarely put on tape, or if it is, it's so abstract that most people never realize it. They just don't know what it means. But if you can show it to them, then that's what becomes the main instrument.

  

  Ry Cooder Buena Vista Social Club
  • People
  • Mean
  • Environment