Ry Cooder Quotes

You're not born with certain skills; you have to acquire them.

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• I enjoy money. Not enough people in this world are happy. I'm determined to be contented, and having plenty of money from working makes it easier for me.

  

  Karen Carpenter The Carpenters
  • People
  • World
  • Money

• I don't really think about what's 'age appropriate' for my audience because I think they can handle quite a bit, but I do try to think about what's honest and true to my characters who have grown up in situations where they've been taught to handle these things very carefully and that they're very powerful.

  

  Veronica Roth
  • Up
  • True
  • Age

• I think it's time we all agree that gender stereotypes are simply the confabulation of our own mind.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Gender

• As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Life
  • Literature
  • More

• I don't know if Wimbledon's seen anything like it. I don't know if they will again. But it was just - it was electric. The Aussie crowd, I'm really proud of them, the way they conducted themselves. You know they're great losers, as well.

  

  Patrick Rafter
  • Great
  • Know
  • Proud

• The latter 1940s and early '50s were a time of tense, explosive conflict, in the world at large and in the politics of our nation.

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • Time
  • World
  • Politics

• As an individual, I need space and can't be locked in a house with strangers. I would do 'Bigg Boss' if I get to co-host it with Salman Khan.

  

  Karan Singh Grover
  • House
  • Space
  • Individual

• I met Jared Leto at Soho House in Berlin.

  

  Gabrielle Aplin
  • House
  • Met
  • Berlin

• When I'm in a tricky situation I often think: 'What would Beyonce do?' It helps.

  

  Laura Carmichael
  • Think
  • Situation
  • Often

• In Europe, a great dancer might be on the same level as a movie star. In America, not so.

  

  Patricia McBride
  • Great
  • America
  • Movie

• One thing most people would agree is that climate change would add further uncertainties to our already quite tight water supply situation in China.

  

  Ma Jun
  • People
  • Change
  • Water

• One day, we were doing a serious scene and fast talking like we do and we could not stop laughing and the director had to stop the production. We had to go to our trailer and calm down and do it all again.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Stop
  • Day
  • Serious

• I still try to be a feminist in some tiny way.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • Way
  • Try
  • Feminist

• I never feel like I need to make a song that sells 5 million copies; that's not the point of why I make music. It's great if that happens, like it did with 'Clarity,' but my goal is to always make a better track than the last one.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
  • Great
  • Music
  • Why

• It was such a pleasure to work with Eugene Levy. What a treat. That's a guy I grew up watching as a kid. Guys like that, they were hilarious and didn't have to be super vile or X-rated.

  

  Harland Williams
  • Up
  • Work
  • Guy

• There's a surge, there's a kind of energy field that says, 'I'm in my groove, I'm in my groove.' and nobody has to tell you, 'You go, girl,' because you know you're already gone.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Girl
  • Energy
  • Field

• The invitation to Miss Myra St. Claire's bobbing party spent the morning in his coat pocket, where it had an intense physical affair with a dusty piece of peanut brittle.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Party
  • Morning

• There is not much you can say about a baby unless you are talking with its father or another mother or nurse; infants are not part of the realm of ordinary language, talk is inadequate to them as they are inadequate to talk.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Baby

• 2015 was really the hardest and the best year of my life. I learned a lot. I went through a lot of personal heartbreak, loss, and turmoil. I had to find my way out of sinking under the weight of it and it was the hardest thing I had to do.

  

  Camila Cabello Fifth Harmony
  • My Life
  • Year
  • Weight

• For me, the guitar was just a tool to make songs. I started when I was 10 - I learned what I had to learn to get my ideas across. I always felt I was a weak guitar player, but now I realize with the finger-picking stuff, I actually know how to do what I do with my songs, but I couldn't step in and be an overall guitar player. But my guitar playing has always been driven by the need to write songs.

  

  Anna Ternheim
  • Write
  • Songs
  • Guitar

• Maybe I was young and 'cute' (after all, I was only twenty then), but I've learned over the years that when you put white lab coats on chemists, they all look alike!

  

  Gertrude B. Elion
  • Science
  • Twenties
  • Biographies

• I think it happens to a lot of people who make music just on a computer by themselves, you don't see the bigger picture. You don't see the forest for the trees. You're looking at every tree so closely, and every tree looks so cool. But you're making a forest, man, you're not making a tree.

  

  Eef Barzelay
  • Music
  • Picture
  • Computer

• I've quite often written tweets that I think are across that line, but I just delete them.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Think
  • Line
  • Often

• You're not born with certain skills; you have to acquire them.

  

  Ry Cooder Buena Vista Social Club
  • Skills
  • Acquire