Ray LaMontagne Quotes

When I pick up the guitar, it's a melody, and that's what drives the lyrics. It's bits and pieces of truth, but it is storytelling.

Ray LaMontagne

• Guitar
• Pieces
• Melody
• Storytelling

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• Now that virtually every career is an option for ambitious girls, it can no longer be considered regressive or reactionary to reintroduce discussion of marriage and motherhood to primary education. We certainly do not want to return to the simplistic duality of home economics classes for girls and wood shop for boys.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Home
  • Career
  • Education

• I had done some TV movies that were great experiences but, no, I wasn't looking to do a series.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Great
  • Done
  • Movies

• Personal life? I'd like to keep it private.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Life
  • Like
  • Personal

• Often times I have been asked about the attributes for success, and I have said that you need two attributes for succeeding as an entrepreneur: one, courage, second, luck.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Success
  • Courage
  • Luck

• I think the British audience might be more open-minded with some of my imagery and weird choices.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Think
  • Choices
  • Weird

• The game has basically not changed since I ended my career.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Game
  • Career
  • Changed

• You learn how to be an individual quick after 15 schools, man. After the first five or six, you realize you're always gonna be the new kid.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Man
  • Always
  • Learn

• At the time, when you're being dissected and judged it's pretty brutal, but in hindsight it's great and - it sounds cliched - you do come out the other side better and stronger.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • Time
  • Great
  • Pretty

• Hinduism has an enormous capacity to absorb from outside influences and accept it in a peaceful and steady manner without perturbing the system.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • System
  • Accept
  • Peaceful

• The husbands, who sometimes have another family who's grown, are going, Now I can spend time with my baby. Oh yeah, I bet your other family is really thrilled.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • Time
  • Family
  • Baby

• The constant influx of new cultures, new ideas and new ways of looking at old problems is a big part of the reason why America has been the most dynamic economy in the world for well over a century.

  

  Gary Locke
  • World
  • Why
  • America

• I don't appeal to everyone well. I appeal to fewer people in a much stronger way. That's what fandom is to me, and what creates fans for everything I make.

  

  Felicia Day
  • People
  • Way
  • Fans

• Did I collect baseball cards? I've got 10 books full of plastic in my mother's house. All the Upper Decks, the Fleers, the Fleer Ultras. My grandfather brought me to the trade shows. I collected Marvel cards, too.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Mother
  • Baseball
  • Books

• I like my life. I like competing, but it's not just because of the money.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Life
  • Money
  • My Life

• I miss singing. I did Broadway forever.

  

  Bellamy Young
  • Forever
  • Singing
  • Broadway

• We got into music to avoid a job, and get lots of girls.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Music
  • Job
  • Girl

• That's not really important what religion people are attached to, because by the same argument I have a lot of Christian friends and Moslem friends. It's just happened that I do have a lot of relatives and friends who are Jewish.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • People
  • Important
  • Friends

• Accept the priceless gift - the joy of work. Apply the greatest value in life: love people and serve them. You will attract big and generous portions of success.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• From John Kennedy to Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush, presidents have rhetorically opened the door to the frontier for us, and each time, we have turned away to fight over destinations, technologies, and timing.

  

  Rick Tumlinson
  • Timing
  • Presidents
  • George

• The Muslim leaders swallow the advice of the Western powers and bodies like the IMF and World Bank, even when it is bad for their countries and they know this.

  

  Abu Bakar Bashir
  • World
  • Bad
  • Know

• The trick is, as I know it, is to care like hell and not give a damn at the same time.

  

  Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
  • I Know
  • Trick
  • Same Time

• If statistics are any indication, the system may well be allowing some innocent defendants to be executed.

  

  Sandra Day O'Connor
  • May
  • Innocent
  • Statistics

• Man's greatest weakness is his love for life.

  

  Moliere
  • Life
  • Love
  • Man

• When I pick up the guitar, it's a melody, and that's what drives the lyrics. It's bits and pieces of truth, but it is storytelling.

  

  Ray LaMontagne
  • Guitar
  • Pieces
  • Melody