Ry Cooder Quotes
You have to be able to improvise and respond to what's going on around you. Then you might get a good piece of work done.
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It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.
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I did not have a father. It was my mom who chose to be alone. She felt that she would be better off by herself with me after I was born.
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Sometimes I hope that through osmosis I might get a workout - just by wearing the clothes.
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I get bored pretty easily and I don't want to get locked down in one profession.
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The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
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Eazy-E is going to remain Eazy-E. But I will not portray Compton as a bad city.
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I think what probably happens when you put two awkward/clunky people together is that their awkward/clunky world seems like a normal world.
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I am not afraid to go to jail.
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Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.
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My music is bejewelled, it's colourful, it's romantic, it shines.
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Let there be great enthusiasm for the plan throughout the entire republic that will overcome all obstacles. Let us join together to realize the Five Year Plan and bring our economy and our own living standards to previously unknown heights.
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I would say I've always lived creativity, but now I - I do it with an intention that's got a completely different power.
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Because many of us have been in game shows for some time, there's always someone around who can share a story of Johnny O or Jay Stewart that I never heard.
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You can be romantically interested in someone and love them and still, I think, be really interested in things and a certain lifestyle that person might provide.
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I'm half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times.
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I have an interest in languages and make an effort to learn.
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'Loving Frank' is about a forbidden love affair between two people who lived a hundred years ago - Frank Lloyd Wright and his married client, Mamah Borthwick Cheney. The affair set off a colossal newspaper scandal when the lovers ran off to Europe together.
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If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it.
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I think people are frightened of women making big decisions.
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My mom is always telling me it takes a long time to get to the top, but a short time to get to the bottom.
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I knew I was crazy because I was watching Jesus Christ Superstar and the part where Jesus carries the cross up the mountain, I actually said to myself, 'Wow! That must be a really good workout! Yeah, because you're doing arms and cardio!'
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Ramadan makes you closer to God.
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My parents being from Nigeria deeply informs all my social justice and human rights work.
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You have to be able to improvise and respond to what's going on around you. Then you might get a good piece of work done.
