Ray LaMontagne Quotes
When I think of folk music, I think of topical songs. And I don't write topical songs.Ray LaMontagne
Quotes to Explore
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People said, 'How could you walk away from music?' But being a dad - there's nothing that can touch that.
Garth Brooks -
If you're thin-skinned, you don't belong doing what I do for a living.
Gary Bettman -
I fantasized being a broadcaster.
Larry King -
The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.
Ovid -
I actually wanted to first direct and produce, but then I got this very cool opportunity to be in front of the camera once.
Manish Dayal -
You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.
Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
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How can we educators claim credit for understanding, let alone teaching, the 'global mind' without a single course on the impact of religion on every day life?
Warren Bennis -
If we were truly in the studio making a record, it would have been more time consuming, and certainly I would have been more involved in the writing process.
Taylor Dayne -
I was born in Jerusalem in 1939 to a poor family that shared a rented four-room apartment with two additional families and their children.
Ada Yonath -
Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if you're not careful.
Ian Mckellen -
It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles - the oppression of tyranny - to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.
Abraham Lincoln -
People ask if success changes one overnight. I am just doing my job, and I worked way too hard to get here. I didn't get it easy.
Rakul Preet Singh
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I had seen images of Crystal Renn and Sophie Dahl growing up, but I didn't really know about the plus-size fashion industry or how lucrative it was or, like, that it was changing or that I was even invited.
Paloma Elsesser -
If we don't empower ourselves with knowledge, then we're gonna be led down a garden path.
Fran Drescher -
I love developing children as characters. Children rarely have important roles in literary fiction - they are usually defined as cute or precious, or they create a plot by being kidnapped or dying.
Barbara Kingsolver -
If you care about the news and write what you want to read - not just what you think Google search wants to read - there are people out there who want to read it.
Rachel Sklar -
I've always shied away from online data storage. I don't even use my employers' network drives for anything sensitive. I want to control access myself.
Barton Gellman -
I was a lousy nun. I couldn't do it. I couldn't find God. It wasn't suitable for me. It is suitable for very few people.
Karen Armstrong
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Love is really the only thing we can possess, keep with us, and take with us.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross -
A lot of people ask how I ended up doing classical music given that I'm in a rock band. The truth is that it's the other way around. I was trained as a classical musician and then started playing in a rock band later.
Bryce Dessner The National -
The start of 2016 offers great promise as the world awakens to the power of connectivity and increasing digitization. The new Digital Age is upon us, and it is unlike anything we have experienced before.
John T. Chambers -
Passive inactivity, because you have not been given specific instructions to do this or to do that, is a serious deficiency.
George C. Marshall -
When I think of folk music, I think of topical songs. And I don't write topical songs.
Ray LaMontagne