Ray LaMontagne Quotes
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I like walking in Golden Gate Park.
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I got fired for giving coffee away. It was just my regulars. I'd say, 'Don't worry about it,' and they'd put down a dollar tip. Technically, I was stealing. Ethically, I was boosting morale!
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If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.
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You can't try to be somebody you're not; that's not style. If someone says, 'Buy this - you'll be stylish,' you won't be stylish because you won't be you. You have to learn who you are first, and that's painful.
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I can remember the first time I ever recorded my vocals on to a beat. Cat Coore from Third World - a legendary Jamaican band - had a little demo set up at his house. I'm very good friends with his eldest son, Shiah, who plays with me now. So we were rhyming over a track by the dancehall artist Peter Metro. I've still got it somewhere.
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I'm not one icon. I'm every icon. I'm an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time. I have no restrictions. No restrictions.
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People get tired of you. So they decided to throw me out. And so help me God, as the numbers were coming in, I said to myself, 'I'm free at last.'
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Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia.
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If you spend 72 hours in a place you've never been, talking to people whose language you don't speak about social, political, and economic complexities you don't understand, and you come back as the world's biggest know-it-all, you're a reporter. Either that or you're President Obama.
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If 'Deadwood' had gone on another two years, I wouldn't have got as many movies made.
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In the present imperialistic milieu there can be no wars of national self-defense.
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That's the funniest thing about portraying certain things on screen, sitting next to your parents and they get to see this glimpse of me kissing another guy.
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Human beings can remain spiritual and religious while enjoying the benefits of rational administration of their affairs.
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My first endeavor was to save the core of the German system of justice: the independent judiciary.
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Everyone tries to define this thing called Character. It's not hard. Character is doing what's right when nobody's looking.
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In the days of Caesar, kings had fools and jesters. Now network presidents have anchormen.
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My philosophy is always to fulfill contracts.
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I don't care about being a literary personality - that doesn't appeal to me, especially because the literary world doesn't appeal to me. I actually don't feel like I even belong in it. If this was high school, I would be sitting with the Goths, looking at everyone, being like, 'Whatever.'
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It's great to go on your own and discover new things just for yourself, to meet new people and all that. If you're all on your own, then there is nobody there to guide you and you have to make all the decisions for yourself. It's quite liberating in a way.
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Family is extremely important, and home is wherever they're waiting for you. No matter where you are, if you have great support, that's all that matters.
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Hawaii is a small, close community.
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At times, my very own media makes me cringe, and occasionally out loud. By the way, nothing clears the head like an out-loud cringe.
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I think that it's really nice to learn that makeup is different for every person. Everyone has a different feature on their face that they like to show off.
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Every song asks to be sung in a different way.
