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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My heart is mysteriously alive in the world of sounds - a totally different dimension from the daily life.
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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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I was never the girl that grew up saying I want to get married. I actually told my parents to not expect me to get married.
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When you get your dream job, you'd be really hard-pressed to leave it. Unless you've got another dream job out there.
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At the end of the day, we have an economy that works for the rich by cheating the poor, and unequal schools are the result of that, not the cause.
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I started out with piano when I was little. That, for songwriting, is my favorite instrument.
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There are only a few images that are not forced to provide meaning, or have to go through the filter of a specific idea.
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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.
