Ryan Adams Quotes
Being a human being is lost. For 120 shows, the one that goes bad is the one that people will talk about.
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My father was raised in the mountains of New Mexico, and he picked cotton for a dollar a day. He was working for the family from the time he was 7.
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If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.
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Millions of people gave their lives fighting fascism and imperialism, but Pearl Harbor was the event that forever changed the course of human history.
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Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.
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A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not a poet.
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I never dreamt, in my dream, I'm Dalai Lama.
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Only in spontaneity can we be who we truly are.
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I had always been feeling uncomfortable in my mind about giving advice to others and not acting upon it myself.
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I think being gay and gay people are the most wonderful things in the world. I wish all of us could have the power and pride to benefit from what is rightfully ours. Why isn't there an enormous building in Washington called the 'National Association of Lesbian and Gay Concerns' to lobby for us?
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Improving oversight of hedge funds and other private funds is vital to their sustainability and to our economy's stability.
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Our original name was Wild Country, but when we first went to The Bowery, they had the name of all 50 states around the edge of the club, so we went to the sign that said 'Alabama' and stuck our band name underneath it.
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I know that I'm definitely not a big big snob, and I know that at the times that I am a diva I know I'm being a diva. It's kind of annoying to know that you are. Because it's a person I do not want to be. So I'm trying my best not to become a jerk.
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Louisiana commenced her existence as a state under a code of laws differing from all the other states which were founded on the common law, in that its code, a new one, was founded mainly on the Civil Law and the Code Napoleon of France.
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People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
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Nothing wrong with making money.
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Will I support our president, whoever that might be? Absolutely. Did I vote for Donald Trump? Absolutely.
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I only write in blue ink.
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Lucky fools do not bear the slightest suspicion that they may be lucky fools - by definition, they do not know that they belong to such a category.
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I chose 1000 originally partly as a way to make sure that people that assumed HZ was 100 would get a swift kick in the pants.
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It's important to have people around you with enough confidence to say if you are not acting in a good way. Normally, when you are at the top, people say everything is fantastic. Probably in that moment it is what you want to hear, but it's best to be reminded how to act properly.
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When I was in Pulp, I actively did more TV stuff because that was during the Great Britpop Wars, and it seemed important to prove that indie people could speak. That war doesn't exist anymore.
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I feel like [throughout] my entire career and life, that I've been judged by people who really did not know me. But I definitely think that they probably were right to assume what they had assumed about me, because there was so little to go on out there. If you only see videos of me being crazy and hearing little things here and there, then obviously you're not going to have any idea who I really am.
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Of course, the whole Andy Kaufman angle was classic. I'm real proud of that. I mean that is something people are still talking about 20 years later, making movies about and that sort of thing. I mean not a day goes by that someone doesn't mention Andy Kaufman to me.
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Being a human being is lost. For 120 shows, the one that goes bad is the one that people will talk about.
