Ryan Adams Quotes
I think that we live in a time where it's easier to be suspicious of dedicated men and women, people dedicated to their craft, because the world around them inspires them to be lazy. It inspires them to be negative. It inspires them to be snarky.
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The six people who had the biggest impact on my life were all women. Had I been sexist, my life would have been far less fulfilling.
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Surround yourself with people who provide you with support and love and remember to give back as much as you can in return.
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People always think they're in the middle of a revolution while they tend not to realize the enormity of a change that has happened in the past. The telegraph was a revolution, but who looks at it that way these days? The telegraph sped up the transportation of messages over long distances by a huge factor.
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It's difficult to tell the truth about how a book begins. The truth, as far as it can be presented to other people, is either wholly banal or too intimate.
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When you tell people you are a model, they have a very narrow view of who you are, and it's good to be able to say that it's not all that I am.
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Perhaps if all the peoples of the world understand what war really means, we would eliminate it.
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With the world changing fast, we needed capital for investments. There's only so much bandwidth in your own balance sheet.
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The greatest injustice in the world is to bring a child into the world, and not be able to offer it peace.
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In a world in which the total of human knowledge is doubling about every ten years, our security can rest only on our ability to learn.
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Donald Trump has done a lot of horrible things on Twitter. From emboldening white supremacists to promoting violence against journalists, his tweets damage the country and put people in harm's way.
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If God hadn't rested on Sunday, He would have had time to finish the world.
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I've heard a number of our alumni - people who are running schools and school systems - think a lot about different models for the teaching profession.
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I still like to listen to the people that I came of age on.
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I don't try to impress people. Sometimes my jokes can be very harsh; I'm very sarcastic. I would joke about something disgusting, and my agent might be like, 'OK, maybe leave that behind for this one meeting. The burping? Maybe don't do that.'
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Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another.
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My dad taught me to never be pigeonholed; to really allow yourself to reinvent characters as they reinvent you; to be bold and to be willing to play seemingly unlikeable people.
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I thank Pussy Riot for standing firmly in their belief for Freedom of Expression, and making all women of the world proud to be women.
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'Protests are a part of our democratic heritage and our democratic privilege ... US and British efforts in Afghanistan and Iraq are finally getting those countries to the place that actually people might have the same privilege of protest'. The Guardian, 2003-11-15
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And as he lay there a far crack of lightning went bluely down the sky and bequeathed him in an embryonic bird's first fissured vision of the world and transpiring instant and outrageous from dark to dark a final view of the grotto and the shapeless white plasm struggling upon the rich and incunabular moss like a lank swamp hare.
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My favorite part about modeling is probably my least favorite part as well. It's traveling. Because it goes both ways. It's so amazing to get to see the world; we're so fortunate to go to all these places that I would never be in unless I was a model.
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I now let go of worn out things, worn out conditions, and worn out relationships. Divine order is now established and maintained in me and in my world.
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I have followed after the truth, across this windy planet upon which every person is nourished by one or another lie.
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Sonny Liston stood up to me and actually made me give ground. No one has ever done that to me before or since.
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I think that we live in a time where it's easier to be suspicious of dedicated men and women, people dedicated to their craft, because the world around them inspires them to be lazy. It inspires them to be negative. It inspires them to be snarky.
