Ryan Adams Quotes
I want to make sure I'm with a girl that's a good kisser, and that when I wake up, I have coffee and a cigarette. That's all I really want out of life. That, and world domination.
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On my mother's side, I'm English, so that's where the freckles come from. On my father's side, I'm German, and he has the fantastic olive hues... I was given mum's skin, whereas my brothers and sisters were given my dad's skin. I do tan up quite well, but it takes me a bit longer.
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I usually get my stuff from people who promised somebody else that they would keep it a secret.
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I used to be obsessed with race. I'm more obsessed with class now.
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Sometimes you just have to jump off the cliff without knowing where you will land.
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You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record.
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We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased, we are glad. If they are not, it doesn't matter. We know we are beautiful. And ugly too.
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In Washington, the translation of E Pluribus Unum has been lost. The belief that we are one nation - united in purpose - caring about and for one another is no longer the practice.
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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My success has got so great, it's like I'm trapped, almost, within it.
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The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same.
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The seminaries must be like the churches' poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.
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This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement.
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After I learn more English, I'll work hard and make more films.
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I've never abandoned the novel.
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The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.
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My only reason why I am not doing films is my children. My children need my attention, and it's my duty to give them my time. I have not given birth to them to just dump them and go off to work. I am not that kind of a person.
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There are always lessons that can be learned from another manufacturer. You can learn from their successes and from their mistakes also. But you cannot replicate; you can only learn.
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We cannot be all the writers all the time. We can only be who we are.
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When mothers earn their fair share, young children have greater access to quality health care, educational opportunities, and safe communities. By ending the wage gap, we will help ensure that every child can achieve his or her God-given potential.
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They even come equipped with a built-in antibiotic called squalamine that helps them resist infections.
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The way a man penetrates the world should be the same way he penetrates his woman: not merely for personal gain or pleasure, but to magnify love, openness, and depth.
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In almost every technology area that we're ahead in, we're ahead in because the United States leads the world in computers.
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I want to make sure I'm with a girl that's a good kisser, and that when I wake up, I have coffee and a cigarette. That's all I really want out of life. That, and world domination.
