Ryan Adams Quotes
Collaboration has become really integral to my process. I play music so that I can spend time with my friends and communicate in that way. I experience so much joy in that process, because, you know, it's those times of getting together and playing music and all that comes with it that are the best for me.
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I pledged to become the world's greatest expert in a field I knew nothing about.
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Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.
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It was very difficult when I was trying to figure out how to have a marriage and babies and do this at the same time. There was no handbook. You were making it up as you went along.
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If someone says, 'I love that lipstick,' I will always try to answer, honestly, if I know what color it is. It's a connective tissue.
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The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile.
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When you're in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you're not dealing with show business, there's still this sense that it's the center of the universe. And I think that's a really dangerous, limiting mindset.
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Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate.
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There's a great freedom in writing by yourself. You can write anything you want.
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The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.
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The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
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Until I got 'Full Metal Jacket,' I was doing Off-Off-Broadway plays with three people in the audience.
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When I read for 'Girls,' I was like, 'The script says 'Handsome Carpenter,' so someone else is going to get the part. They'll have someone handsome, not me.'
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I don't really like talking about my personal life. I like a certain amount of veil.
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Technology is an enabler; you have to be at the cutting edge of technology - there is no choice.
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Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.
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Being happy with less is what makes a great human being, not a big house with marble floors, or everyone knowing who you are.
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'I guess I make things that need energy stronger. I'm like a walking battery.' 'You're the table everyone wants at Starbucks,' Gansey mused as he began to walk again. Blue blinked. 'What?' Over his shoulder, Gansey said, 'Next to the wall plug.'
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Virtues, n. pl. Certain abstentions.
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Presidential campaigns are exhausting. Once they're over, we all heave a sigh of relief that we have our lives back, the constant emails and news reports no longer harangue us, and the topic even turns at times to something else entirely.
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When their city was occupied by the Gauls, and the Romans, who were besieged in the Capitol, had made military engines from the hair of the women, they dedicated a temple to the Bald Venus.
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I worshipped money so much that it ruined my life. Money is not my god. I just want to manage His money for Him, for the poor people, the lost kids. I just love everybody.
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What use is a good thought if no one agrees with it?
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To run an effective political party you need a degree of tribalism, it's the glue that holds everyone together.
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Collaboration has become really integral to my process. I play music so that I can spend time with my friends and communicate in that way. I experience so much joy in that process, because, you know, it's those times of getting together and playing music and all that comes with it that are the best for me.
