Ryan Adams Quotes
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When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
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I carried through well with my tennis. I got the respect by usage of the tennis racket.
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Being called a conscious rapper is quite a compliment. It's a great thing to be. But as an artist, my nature is to not be in a box.
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Women have a lot of... attitudes enforced in us about our sense of attractiveness being bound up in long, flowing, Hollywood kind of hair.
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Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy.
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I want to keep acting. I'll be acting probably until I get a lot older.
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In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.
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Well the basic thesis is that there's a god in heaven who is all powerful who wants to help people. And that - he will answer prayer, and does miraculous things in people's lives. And so I've documented some of these wonderful things.
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The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take.
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What I really learned in the army was how to be a pacifist.
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I think there are only two kinds of heroes: the flamboyant ones and the angry-yet-silent types. Every character on TV falls into either category.
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If I'm happy with what I'm putting out and proud of it - that is becoming enough for me. It's testing myself, but I'm ready to do it, whereas I wasn't ready before. Sometimes it's feigned confidence, but if I make a decision, I can do anything.
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As a designer, I'm not a guy that can be put in a niche.
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If a woman is super-successful, she is called a psychopath.
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I awake with a not entirely sickened knowledge that I am merely young again and in a funny way at peace, an observer who is aware of time's chariot, aware that some metamorphosis has occurred.
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There's only one remedy for crime - get rid of the psychs! They are causing it!
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It was immigration that taught us, it does not matter where you came from, or who your parents were. What counts is who you are.
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The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.
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I don't think that a vote for Barack Obama is a symbolic thing. I think it's much more than that. It's not just a black man. It's not just a feel-good vote. It's the idea of electing someone who really does want to make a difference.
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The cypress stood up like a churchThat night we felt our love would hold,And saintly moonlight seemed to searchAnd wash the whole world clean as gold;The olives crystallized the vales'Broad slopes until the hills grew strong:The fireflies and the nightingalesThrobbed each to either, flame and song.The nightingales, the nightingales.
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I've got my huge Greek family. I mean, I don't know how many cousins I have - I can't even keep track. There are just so many of us, and we love all Greek food - we have Greek night every Sunday night.
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My mom is probably the only person shorter than me that I'm scared of. Still to this day. She's, like, five-two, maybe.
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The Bahamas is headed for unprecedented economic activity.
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The night destroys the sun
