Ryan Adams Quotes

It would be really nice to make a record that would be super-fun to play live - a record that would be funny, with a little bit of heart.

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• I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Work
  • Lucky
  • Old

• I remember the moon landings, and Apollo was the paradigm by which all progress was measured at that time. And I knew that creating a true space-faring civilization was both possible and practical. What I failed to realize was that the effort would fail due to bureaucratic inertia and political apathy.

  

  Karl Schroeder
  • Time
  • Remember
  • True

• On a large scale, people aren't going to cut back how much they use. That's a pipe dream. If anything, as the developing world gets richer, the world's going to consume more - more cars, bigger homes, more energy, more water, more food.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • People
  • World
  • Dream

• If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Women
  • Woman
  • Year

• I'm Cuban, so I know a lot of people who act like vampires. But wait, vampires have to be invited to your house, so maybe they are nothing like Latinos!

  

  Valerie Cruz
  • People
  • House
  • Know

• Growing up, I had a very happy childhood, with two parents who are still very much together.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Up
  • Together
  • Happy

• People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.

  

  Cal Thomas
  • People
  • Money
  • Government

• There are many things that matter much more than an editor's gender in shaping the direction of the leadership.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Leadership
  • Matter
  • Gender

• I can't inhabit my characters until I know what kind of work they do. This requires research because my jobs for the last decade have been author and professor, and I'd like to spare the world more author or professor novels.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • World
  • Work
  • Author

• Now I love hoops. I'm a diehard UCLA fan, have been since my freshman year. But basketball is the '1812 Overture.' Pomp and circumstance, fireworks and cannons, lots and lots of fun, and in the end, still Tchaikovsky.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Fun
  • End
  • Circumstance

• The attacks on the Paris Metro in the 1990s were committed by members of the local Muslim community, immigrants from the Maghreb region of North Africa.

  

  Otto Schily
  • Community
  • Paris
  • Immigrants

• It was really fascinating for everyone involved in 'Fargo' that Marge Gunderson became the iconic character she did. I think it was something about the cultural zeitgeist and what was happening with women in the workplace.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Women
  • She
  • Character

• Too many trees are killed to print the words of people who may not have all that much to say, and authors and journalists are equally culpable in this regard.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • People
  • May
  • Words

• I like the idea of working my way up. I don't feel impatient to immediately jump into something that could literally bring down a studio if I don't do it well.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Up
  • Feel
  • Jump

• Parsi theater was known for melodrama.

  

  Irrfan Khan
  • Theater
  • Known
  • Melodrama

• Regardless of who wins, an election should be a time for optimism and fresh approaches.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Time
  • Election
  • Optimism

• Sometimes, success almost haunts you. You want to be the best at everything you do and know you have to work hard.

  

  Katarina Witt
  • Work
  • Success
  • Best

• I've been around a long time, so I guess I've touched a lot of people's lives - hopefully for the better.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• Food, to me, is always about cooking and eating with those you love and care for.

  

  David Chang
  • Food
  • Cooking

• Any woman can make pole dancing a regular part of their exercise routine - and a fun part of their romantic life!

  

  Kendra Wilkinson
  • Life
  • Fun
  • Exercise

• Give me the clear blue sky over my head, and the green turf beneath my feet, a winding road before me, and a three hours' march to dinner - and then to thinking! ... I begin to feel, think, and be myself again. Instead of an awkward silence, broken by attempts at wit or dull common-places, mine is that undisturbed silence of the heart which alone is perfect eloquence.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Thinking
  • Heart
  • Giving

• We talked about being fast, about being physical. Everyone on our team is fast. Everyone on our team is physical. ... Everybody understands what coach Dungy wants out of the defense. Once we figured it out, it was easy for us to go out and play fast, play hard.

  

  Bob Sanders
  • Team
  • Play
  • Defense

• The memories which come to us through music are not accompanied by any regrets; for a moment music gives us back the pleasures it retraces, and we feel them again rather than recollect them.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Music
  • Memories

• It would be really nice to make a record that would be super-fun to play live - a record that would be funny, with a little bit of heart.

  

  Ryan Adams
  • Heart
  • Fun
  • Nice