Lee Ranaldo Quotes
'Europe '72' came out right around the time that I started going to see the Dead, and it had a huge impression on me.
Quotes to Explore
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In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.
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It ultimately becomes an asset to be part of a theatrical family if, indeed, you're good at what you do.
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For me, my writing benefits from my experience.
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I love engaging in conversation with other moms because we can relate to one another, and we swap valuable insight and information.
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You'll be fooled if you only get your hip-hop from the mainstream, you know. The things that move people are not just found in the mainstream cultures. And when we talk about hip-hop in general, hip-hop's basically preoccupied with life.
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The only difference between a good writer who publishes a book and a good writer who doesn't is that the writer who publishes actually finished her book.
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I know: I am a freakish geek. Or is that a geekish freak?
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The thing that I think a lot of guys need to know how to do is not take your mother's advice about honesty being the best policy. Listen to your cool, drunk uncle who tells you to lie. Those are the relationships that last.
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Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the will to love.
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In order to maintain that fire for acting and capture its essence, you can't let yourself be concerned with what people have to say about you. You just can't.
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But then, even with sex, I'm more in the school of less is more in movies.
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Whether labeled as such or not, I think every book I've ever written has been, more or less, a romantic suspense. I have always put tremendous effort into making each book a page turner: The harder it is for the reader to put it down, the better I've done my job.
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The heart and soul of pop is newness, excitement, innovation.
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Nobody should be allowed to tinker with democracy. We will not discontinue the good works of the past government.
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We're all trying to be Beyonce and Sheryl Sandberg at the same time.
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Remember, your vote is not a wasted vote. Vote with your heart and think about the future generations the next time you vote.
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I like writing about women, weak and strong, pathetic and heroic. I like writing about men, ditto. And all the variants of men and women, beasts and demons.
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Sometimes when you're relegated to your neighborhood, you forget that there's more important things than your neighborhood going on out in the world.
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Picasso is what is going to happen and what is happening; he is posterity and archaic time, the distant ancestor and our next-door neighbor. Speed permits him to be two places at once, to belong to all the centuries without letting go of the here and now.
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Be honest, be nice, be a flower not a weed.
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It is not good not to have health insurance; that leaves the family very vulnerable.
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Predominantly in the West, if you can only have creative voices that are either black or white, I'm going to say whatever the f - k I want, because no one's going before you, and if no one's coming after you, I'm just going to be the freakiest of all freaks!
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'Europe '72' came out right around the time that I started going to see the Dead, and it had a huge impression on me.
