Ryan Adams Quotes
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I don't want the news to be patriotic. I don't want to see flags on the lapels of the anchors. I don't want any of that.
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If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.
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We want enough people adopting Bitcoin for a robust infrastructure. It's an act of patriotism. It gives the country a robust parallel system.
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I have a tweet that said, 'I want to be a Calvin Klein model,' and that was in 2011. And then I modeled for Calvin Klein. And then I had a tweet like, 'I wonder what it's like to be in front of thousands of fans,' and I've been in front of thousands of fans.
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I think it's very hard to find a good friend. That's why I'm so lucky to have two sisters, because they're my best friends, and they have to be with me forever. They're stuck with me.
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I want to write without shame or pride or over-compensation in one direction or another. To write freely.
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Spitfire asked me if I had a problem talking about Van Halen or Extreme. I really don't. There are people who are just going to want to know what it was like to play with Eddie.
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I don't think you really have chemistry in the way that you want between two actors unless frustration is there as well.
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I really make sure that my girls understand the importance of education. I don't want them to be spoilt and only know private school kids. I want them to behave well by example.
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I always want to go back and do stand-up; I like the freedom.
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Do I want to tackle a 230-pound guy who's running like a deer? Heavens no, no one in their right mind would. But there is something that drives me and compels me to stick my head in there and give it my best shot.
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Immigration is a volatile issue, but we're in the middle of it now, and probably the worst thing to do is to not do anything. Everybody recognizes the current system is not working the way we want it to work. It has huge flaws to it; need to do something.
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Whether you want to entertain or to provoke, to break hearts or reassure them, what you bring to your writing must consist of your longings and disappointments.
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I have a thousands wants; it's hard to really hone in on just a few.
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Yes, it's hard to write. But it's harder not to.
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I do not want to be a robot, a cog in society who answers 'yes' because 'yes' is considered the appropriate answer. Neither do I want to be a protestor. I just want to seek out what lies underneath the veils of politeness and programming that I've been given as a person in this society.
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I know a lot of women who embody what it means to be a feminist but do not want to use that word. The misperceptions about what it's all about have gotten into their heads.
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I wouldn't want to be a James Bond.
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You get to be famous or have some notoriety and there are so many people who want a piece of you.
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I like to release music the way I feel it, as opposed to having a date. The idea of dates, boxes, categories are very scary for me.
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The '70s were a time of turmoil and turnover. But I grew up here. I always wanted to play here.
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Few words in any language carry such a load of meaning as 'honor.' It is an old word, unchanged even in its spelling from classical Latin to modern English. Spoken or written, it does not seem to require much explanation; most people think they know what it means.
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For those of us imprisoned in Poland, the Prague Spring was a harbinger of hope.
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Some people want to go forever, I just want to burn off hard and bright.
