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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Chicago still remains a Mecca of the Midwest - people from both coasts are kind of amazed how good life is in Chicago and what a good culture we've got. You can have a pretty wonderful artistic life and never leave Chicago.
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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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I was very skinny, braces; so I never thought I would be a model.
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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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One day people will touch and talk perhaps easily, and loving be natural as breathing and warm as sunlight, and people will untie themselves, as string is unknotted, unfold and yawn and stretch and spread their fingers, unfurl, uncurl like seaweed returned to the sea, and work will be simple and swift as a seagull flying, and play will be casual and quiet as a seagull settling, and the clocks will stop, and no one will wonder or care or notice, and people will smile without reason, even in winter, even in the rain.
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I think musicians should stay off television generally. I get asked all the time. Those shows are just promoting insipid comedies. Who watches those shows? And whoever does I don't think my music would speak to those people. I don't even want those people to hear what I'm doing.
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A free society is regarded as one that does not engage, on principle, in attempting to control what people find meaningful, and a totalitarian society is regarded as one that does, on principle, attempt such control.
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All those things they say about a baby changing your perspective - it does!
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When I'm preparing for a swim, I imagine absolutely everything about it: the color of the water, how cold it is, the taste of salt in my mouth. I visualize each and every stroke.
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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.
