Ryan Adams Quotes

What I love most in life happens to be the very thing that I do day-to-day, as my work. What would be my hobby, you know, happens to be my actual job. So I'm very lucky. Even if I didn't want to do as much work as I do, I'd still feel compelled to, because I so longed to be a full-time artist, and since I've been given that opportunity, I'd never want to let down the gift.

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• I had this 'War and Peace' thing of wanting to experience war as a kind of incredible human enterprise. I even applied to Officer Candidate School. Then the practical side of me kicked in and I thought, 'I really don't want to get drafted.' So I went down to the physical and checked every psychological disorder and drug on the medical history form.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • School
  • Experience
  • War

• We got a chance to go and play in some places that the usual European tour by an American band didn't go to.

  

  Jack Irons Pearl Jam
  • American
  • Play
  • Band

• It's always really challenging trying to go from player to player/coach. You have a kind of friendship basis of relationship with all of your teammates, and now you go to this power position where you have to make decisions that might hurt people's feelings.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • People
  • Trying
  • Power

• I was never offended that people underestimated me because of my appearance or that they thought I was pretty and discouraged me from fighting because they didn't want me to risk hurting my looks.

  

  Laila Ali
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Fighting

• Faith is trust in ultimate meaning.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Faith
  • Trust
  • Meaning

• Spending money is much more difficult than making money.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Money
  • More
  • Making Money

• Cinematic icons of the police detective are more male role models than female.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Police
  • More
  • Detective

• In fitness, there are no short cuts. It involves immense discipline and hard work.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Work
  • Discipline
  • Hard Work

• The kind of audience I'm speaking to is a very wide range of people.

  

  Haley Reinhart
  • People
  • Kind
  • Audience

• The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

  

  Walker Percy
  • Life
  • Search
  • Despair

• Part of being out there, campaigning, talking to people, is being able to read body language.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • People
  • Language
  • Body

• Rather than engage in the sort of selective retention that so many investors tend to do and pretend mistakes never happened, I prefer to 'own' them. This allows me to learn from them and, with any luck, avoid making the same errors again.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Learn
  • Luck
  • Mistakes

• I grew up less than a mile from folks that lived in shacks with dirt floors. I certainly know that there are needs in this country. Not too far from your house, if you look around, people need to be helped.

  

  Chris Stapleton
  • People
  • Up
  • Country

• I love watching track and field - the 4x100 relay, the 100-(meter) dash, the 200-(meter) dash. To see what they're able to do, I love watching that.

  

  LeBron James

• Clearly, freedom does not extend to the right to harm other people.

  

  Lionel Shriver
  • People
  • Freedom

• Lord knows, I love a brainless pop song.

  

  Jake Shears Scissor Sisters
  • Song

• Trying new things and experimenting is something I push myself to do. It's one thing to have love for all different kinds of music; it's another thing to bring them together seamlessly and make them coherent.

  

  Kevin Parker Tame Impala
  • Music
  • Different
  • Trying

• Some of the analysts were saying, Now you're a cash cow, there's no growth at all, pay it all out in dividends, give me it all, you can't invest wisely.

  

  Jim Cantalupo
  • Growth

• Everything had been done long before I started making movies. I mean, there's nothing that Godard hasn't already done. You can't do a single thing that Godard hasn't already thought of. And so you struggle to do something that is not predictable.

  

  Steven Soderbergh
  • Struggle
  • Movies
  • Predictable

• A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Music
  • Peace
  • Artist

• America saw me as a projection of me that I always wanted. Thats why I love going to America so much. I feel like I started off in America exactly how I wanted to start everywhere.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Why
  • America
  • Feels

• Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.

  

  Willem de Kooning
  • Artist
  • Feelings
  • Canvas

• What I love most in life happens to be the very thing that I do day-to-day, as my work. What would be my hobby, you know, happens to be my actual job. So I'm very lucky. Even if I didn't want to do as much work as I do, I'd still feel compelled to, because I so longed to be a full-time artist, and since I've been given that opportunity, I'd never want to let down the gift.

  

  Ryan Adams
  • Opportunity
  • Artist
  • Feels