Ryan Adams Quotes
I was a nervous young man. I wanted to do so many things. And I was so enthusiastic and earnestly in love with so many things that I tried too hard. I tried really, really hard. And I made a lot of mistakes. I was afraid of a lot of stuff. And I kind of feel bad for that person I was.
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I think we Americans tend to put too high a price on unanimity, as if there were something dangerous and illegitimate about honest differences of opinion honestly expressed by honest men.
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A common mistake people make regarding dining rooms is to buy a matching set of table and chairs, which can be monotonous. I like to mix guest chairs in one style and head chairs in another for a more interesting, dynamic look.
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Being on 'The Sopranos' definitely prepared me for the militant secrecy of 'Mad Men.'
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A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.
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Men are what their mothers made them.
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Men are taught that if we are not the ultimate provider, we are a complete failure. We have to be number one in everything we do. There is nothing more delusional or paralysing than what I have just described.
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I did some research and tried to pull out some old, classic Van Halen that they had not played in 10 or 15 years. I think that was Sammy's mistake. I he didn't want to do the Dave stuff.
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The latest research has revealed that women have a higher IQ than men.
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No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction.
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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.
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I'm kind of shy, to be honest. If I go to the pool or something, I keep my shirt on unless I'm getting in the water.
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Historically, men have a hard time getting onboard with feminism, but I think that's changing.
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I failed public speaking in grade school, 'cause I was so nervous and scared.
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God's hand is strange to us. He cares nothing for the moment, nothing for the feeble ambitions of men and women. He sees the road that flows onward forever.
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There is one thing, and only one, in the whole universe which we know more about than we could learn from external observation. That one thing is Man. We do not merely observe men, we are men. In this case we have, so to speak, inside information; we are in the know.
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'The child is essentially alien to this society of men and might express his position in the words of the Gospel: My kingdom is not of this world'
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In busy companies of men.
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Even if animal experiments did result in a cure for AIDS, of which there is no chance, I’d be against it on moral grounds.
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I've been in contact with Marshal Badoglio. We agree that Italy must be saved from the abyss toward which Fascism is driving her. If we depose Mussolini, however, the new government should do nothing drastic to upset Hitler until we can secretly negotiate an armistice with the Allies.
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I'm a nearly uncontrollable Geoff Dyer fan, who I think is one of the most comically brilliant writers today.
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Hear only the things you should hear - be deaf to others.
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Temporary success can be achieved in spite of lack of other fundamental qualities, but no advancements can be maintained without hard work.
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I was a nervous young man. I wanted to do so many things. And I was so enthusiastic and earnestly in love with so many things that I tried too hard. I tried really, really hard. And I made a lot of mistakes. I was afraid of a lot of stuff. And I kind of feel bad for that person I was.
