Ryan Adams Quotes
It's really very easy for me to be in The Cardinals, because I bring my voice, my guitar, and my songs to them, and then we all play around to find out what works.
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My attitude is govern as if you've run your last race. That's not to say I've run my last race, but govern with a liberation and a freedom; change your mind frame to operate that way.
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I don't want to kill windowing; I want to restore choice and options.
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All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.
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Kids should speak to each other. They're horrid to each other online, they bully each other - they should shut up and stop it. The problem with social media is there is too much freedom. It's too much, too young.
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I don't want to look back and say, 'Yeah, I was really successful, but I failed at fatherhood because I wasn't there.'
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I do not connect fashion to elegance. Elegance is in the wilderness, and fashion is in the domestic.
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There is a clear link between illegal migrants coming to Europe and the spread of terrorism.
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I wasn't anything special as a father. But I loved them and they knew it.
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For gay people, we learned about our lives in secrecy and a lot of fear.
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My interviewing style and my approach to things is that, yes, it's okay to be sincere; it's okay to be yourself; it's okay to be real.
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Despite all the media coverage, glitz and glam of hedge funds, they have not done well for their investors. They have high - some say excessively high - fees; their short- and long-term performance has been poor.
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I did not come to NASA to make history.
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Straight up. You can't mess with Jay when it's time to come play.
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The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.
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It was definitely some tough moments throughout my life, but I kind of stayed focused and came through the other end of the tunnel.
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I always feel a bit trapped when a painting goes for millions of pounds and only one person can have it. If you can have that as well as a poster on every student's wall, then you're in a very enviable position. I'd like to do a Damien Hirst for £500 at some point.
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Conflict is the pursuit of truth.
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I have strong views about South African politics and I still don't feel I need to make public statements.
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Now there's no more oak oppressionFor they passed a noble lawAnd the trees are all kept equalBy hatchet, axe and saw - The Trees (1978)
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Positive thought expands the halo of mind energy.
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Sometimes I realize halfway through a story, I'm like, 'Why would anyone care about this? It's uninteresting.'
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There's a saying, 'It's easy to write songs, but very difficult to write great songs.' I'm going through that right now.
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It's really very easy for me to be in The Cardinals, because I bring my voice, my guitar, and my songs to them, and then we all play around to find out what works.
