Ryan Adams Quotes
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For decades in America, there has been an effort to ensure that the rights of those who are not sane are the same as the rights of those who are.
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I went to college, though I didn't take many writing courses.
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The public debate about evolution itself, as opposed to whether to teach it, is something else. It is boring, demeaning, and insufferably dull.
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I don't like a lot of rehearsing.
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If we are really serious about preventing another crisis like the 2008 meltdown, we should simply ban complex financial instruments unless they can be unambiguously shown to benefit society in the long run.
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No man has the right to use the great powers of the Presidency to lead the people, indirectly, into war.
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Sometimes, trying to make a work of art can be very difficult and very painful.
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There's a passion about this because people take it very close to their hearts and they have grown up with James Bond - and so have I. But I was being criticized before I had presented anything, so it was name calling.
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Washington has incentivized the militarization of local police precincts by using federal dollars to help municipal governments build what are essentially small armies - where police departments compete to acquire military gear that goes far beyond what most of Americans think of as law enforcement.
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SMALL SONG The reeds give way to the windand give the wind away
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Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience; and casts light into the cavern through which he worked his cause up to the cheerful day.
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Nothing the desert produces expresses it better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas.
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Be Funny. Be naturally funny. If you're not, get out of the business. Be compassionate.
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For me, concussion response is pure common sense. We can all probably handle a few mild concussions. I have had at least three, and despite my detractors' opinions, I am mentally and physically fine.
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I love Miranda Lambert; I think she's wonderful. I love the song 'Love Letters' and 'Famous in a Small Town.'
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The music we made then was so amateurish, compared to the rest of mainstream pop or rock and roll. But what differentiated us from what everybody else was doing in the business was the fact that you could tell that these people came from different reference areas.
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'Alarm' and 'Ciao Adios' are about the same person, yeah.
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John von Neumann gave me an interesting idea: that you don't have to be responsible for the world that you're in. So I have developed a very powerful sense of social irresponsibility as a result of von Neumann's advice. It's made me a very happy man ever since. But it was von Neumann who put the seed in that grew into my active irresponsibility!
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I wish I could come back up here whenever I wanted.
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I've had this conversation with friends who have had challenging relationships with one or another parent. The only thing I can say is what I feel: The other person isn't going to change. That is who they are.
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I've never been to Vegas, but I've gambled all my life.
