Ray LaMontagne Quotes
It bugs me that people think my songs are personal because it means I have to explain myself all the time.
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Instead of building walls, we should be building bridges.
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I've always been clear - I feel good at Chelsea. Every week, I repeat the same on PSG. It's a big team but an inferior league. I don't want to return to France, because I've won everything over there - the league title, cup, best player, best young player.
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I have been sustained by cane field, the cane plantation I have.
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Whenever I write a new song, it always happens when I come back from Europe or Egypt or something like that. It's always from travelling.
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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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Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.
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It felt when I was growing up that sport was, like, the only thing you should do... if you do music, you're really different and a bit weird.
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When you're playing a fictional character reacting to the real world, it's incredibly difficult and confusing and kind of messes with your values a bit.
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Country music is some of the best-written music in the world, so yeah, one day, I would keep my mind open to doing a country record.
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I have learned that any fool can write a bad ad, but that it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one.
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There have been times throughout American history where what is right is not the same as what is legal. Sometimes to do the right thing you have to break the law.
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Be known as a great resource. Are you an Excel genius? An expert on local restaurants? Fabulous at proofreading? Go beyond your job description by being an open resource for others in the company who could benefit from your talents. I believe that paying it forward will serve you well one way or another in the future.
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When you grow up, you think everything you own is going to be designer. Not true. Most of the stuff I own is high-street. I love mixing it up; it's so beautifully made nowadays, and the quality is of such a high standard, and let's be honest: everybody loves a bargain.
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My favorite Dominican dish to indulge in is anything with crab.
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I've been known to create clothes that are very formfitting and feminine.
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There is a class system in acting just like in anything else. Black females fall in a category below black male actors.
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This stand wasn't because I feel like I'm being put down in any kind of way. This is because I'm seeing things happen to people that don't have a voice: people that don't have a platform to talk and have their voices heard and affect change. So I'm in the position where I can do that, and I'm going to do that for people that can't.
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I've written several deeply personal songs this year, which I really love. Some of them came out of intense sadness. This has been an extremely difficult year for me.
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Go, bid the soldiers shoot.
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My dad had a retail business in Leavenworth, Kansas, and there's a whole bunch of prisons there, so it was a backdrop of my childhood, these ominous prisons sitting off the road.
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I mean you're so shy & I'm lovin your tie You're like slicker than the guy with the thing on his eye
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I'm not sure why I like cats so much. I mean, they're really cute obviously. They are both wild and domestic at the same time.
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It bugs me that people think my songs are personal because it means I have to explain myself all the time.
