Chuck Ragan Quotes
Creating records and writing music with people I admire and respect is a very spiritual and enlightening thing for me.
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Karaoke is something that's near and dear and very close to my heart. I was a karaoke host when I was working my way through university. I was a full-time student and karaoke was my night job.
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I identified with white culture, and I wanted to fit in. I didn't identify with black culture. Like, I didn't like Tyler Perry movies, and I wasn't into hip-hop music. I liked Neil Young.
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Sustainable development is the pathway to the future we want for all. It offers a framework to generate economic growth, achieve social justice, exercise environmental stewardship and strengthen governance.
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I do small things. I try to do good things every day.
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You look in my room and it looks neat enough, but if you dared to look under my bed or in my closet, oh what a mess!
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Whenever I have even a spare second, I'm in the kitchen whipping up a batch of cookies. I make a mean batch of chocolate chippers.
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I'm lucky enough to do what I like for work - not everyone's that fortunate.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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I think women love very hard. We love men. We just love with everything we have. And sometimes, I don't know that that love is met with the type of dignity that we wish it would be met with.
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When you're rich you don't write checks.
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We have no quarrel with a policy that seeks to support human rights.
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The most enduring stories in literature generally have some kind of crime at their center, whether it's the bloody butchery of 'Hamlet,' the lecherous misanthropes of Dickens or the lone gunman from 'The Great Gatsby.'
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No matter what job you do, we all have a much different life than our parents had. My parents' generation had one job and then they retired. Now, people have many different jobs.
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I always try not to overload my music with orchestration and to use only those instruments that are absolutely necessary.
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I just love music, and I absorbed what I love.
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Having a son is not all pleasure.
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We want the city back on its feet. We want to have jobs for the city.
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I always liked parties. You meet people; you can have fun.
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I tried to pay some small tribute to A Man and a Woman (1966) with the recurring musical theme.
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Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories: those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost. The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately to defeat him, and the three major classifications are based on the method each object uses to achieve its purpose. As a general rule, any object capable of breaking down at the moment when it is most needed will do so.
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When I did some Nascar races this year I noticed that I was increasingly missing the racing side, to race against each other, because in rallying you really race against the clock.
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If you want to reap financial blessings, you have to sow financially.
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I certainly want people to like my writing, but I know that if I write with the intention of trying to please people, the writing will not be good because it will not be authentic. So, ironically, I have to be willing to write something strange or unlovable in order to write anything truly good.
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Creating records and writing music with people I admire and respect is a very spiritual and enlightening thing for me.
