Ronnie Wood Quotes
Most white Americans only discovered the blues with the British invasion.
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In politics, the reaction to a controversy is very often more enlightening and important than the details of the allegations themselves.
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It's not that that I'm not comfortable being naked, but when you grow up fat, you can't take away the shame or embarrassment even though you're a model. It's not just erased.
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Thematically, in a lot of what I write, there's a sense of displacement, of being rooted in multiple places, and how that can tug at your identities and your wants and your goals.
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I do all these various activities like painting and writing, comedy and films probably because not that I'm good at everything but because I'm not good at any of these things.
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If I feel that I'm not able to do my best work - whether that's my own fault or as a result of an editorial situation - then I need to stop doing it. I would rather not do something than do it badly or ineffectively. It's the only way I can live with myself and do right by the fans in the long haul.
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Help is dangerous because it exists outside the human economy: the only payment for help is gratitude.
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So far as female beauty is concerned, the Circassian women have no superiors. They have preserved in their mountain home the purity of the Grecian models, and still display the perfect physical loveliness, whose type has descended to us in the Venus de Medici.
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We spend our time responding rationally to a world which we understand and recognize, but which no longer exists.
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Hong Kong people say Hong Kong needs to preserve its uniqueness. I say Hong Kong's uniqueness is in its diversity, its tolerance of difference cultures... China does not want to see Hong Kong in decline. I have full confidence in its future.
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He was not only a bore; he bored for England.
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I'm the kind of person that if I see someone else crying, I cry too. I take on that emotion.
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Good-looking people turn me off. Myself included.
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I've always had really messy hair.
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I don't need to publish to make a living.
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I'm terrible remembering lyrics. Before a tour, I have to remind myself. I have to go through the songs.
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If Obama's enormous symbolic power draws primarily from being the country's first black president, it also draws from his membership in hip-hop's foundational generation.
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I'd kiss a frog even if there was no promise of a Prince Charming popping out of it. I love frogs.
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We're stuck in the concrete age. Concrete has really become this ever-present material that's almost impossible to get away from. It's cheap, abundant, and easy to work with, and to an extent, that's good.
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I use things that people want to hide in their heads. War, religion, sex; things we all think about, but don’t bring to the forefront. But I do and I force them to watch it.
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You need a village, if only for the pleasure of leaving it. A village means that you are not alone, knowing that in the people, the trees, the earth, there is something that belongs to you, waiting for you when you are not there.
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My only regret in the theater is that I could never sit out front and watch me.
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I will sing happy songs, and I do sing happy songs, but the stuff that's going to move me and going to make me close my eyes is always the blues.
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Most white Americans only discovered the blues with the British invasion.
