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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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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Reduced to its lowest terms, the great struggle which now rocks the whole earth more and more takes on the character of a struggle of the individual versus the state.
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David Bowie and Boy George created a safely contained theatrical expression of gay style.
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People are what this election is all about.
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Sometimes when I need something really nourishing, I'll use the Creme de la Mer night cream - it leaves my skin looking beautiful. I don't go too far on my make-up because I have to wear it so often for work, so I'm quite low key.
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It's kind of weird. You can have hits, but it's hard to sustain a career. I went through that period where I didn't have a lot of hits, although people were still buying the records.
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Lets tell young people the best books are yet to written; the best painting, the best government the best of everything is yet to be done by them.
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I love it when people make things look fun and easy. Guys like Dane Reynolds and Kelly Slater and Pedro on a skateboard, they're never forcing it.
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Creating records and writing music with people I admire and respect is a very spiritual and enlightening thing for me.
