Lee Ranaldo Quotes

I've been lucky enough to be in this amazing band, and to me, a band is really a collaborative unit, and that's definitely been what Sonic Youth has been.

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• When I produce a movie - and I've produced a number of movies, unlike Arnold - yes, I'm frustrated when the union says you can't do this, you can't work past that hour, you've got to break for lunch. But ultimately, they're right. What they do is for everyone's benefit.

  

  Warren Beatty
  • Work
  • Movie
  • Past

• My abiding faith in the wisdom of our electorate is what gives me hope.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Hope
  • Faith
  • Wisdom

• Long after the bomb falls and you and your good deeds are gone, cockroaches will still be here, prowling the streets like armored cars.

  

  Tama Janowitz
  • Good
  • Long
  • You

• The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • People
  • World
  • History

• I have to make sure that I make good choices and that if I put my name on it, it's a high-quality endeavor and that I have time to be a human being.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Time
  • Good
  • High

• I'm John Lee Hooker in the sense that he was a blues man and he played blues his whole life. I'm a rock guy and I'm going to play rock music my whole life.

  

  Sammy Hagar Van Halen
  • Life
  • Music
  • Guy

• The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Truth
  • Change
  • Ability

• The most powerful words in English are 'Tell me a story,' words that are intimately related to the complexity of history, the origins of language, the continuity of the species, the taproot of our humanity, our singularity, and art itself.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Art
  • History
  • Words

• We have the American people properly concerned about the future of our country and the world.

  

  Hamilton Jordan
  • People
  • World
  • Country

• I think one of the things about being a good coach is to recognise when you have given all that you can. In fact there should be some sort of unspoken law that says that a coach cannot have anyone for three or four years - if you have not passed on most of the stuff you know in that time, then you are not doing a good job.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • Time
  • Good
  • Job

• Laughter is regional: a smile extends over the whole face.

  

  Malcolm de Chazal
  • Smile
  • Laughter
  • Face

• The main thing that you have to remember on this journey is, just be nice to everyone and always smile.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Remember
  • Nice
  • Journey

• Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Know
  • Religion
  • Politics

• Conventional is not for me. I like things that are uniquely Flo. I like being different.

  

  Florence Griffith Joyner
  • Different
  • Me
  • Like

• Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Work
  • Why
  • She

• Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse.

  

  C. Northcote Parkinson
  • Point
  • Perfection
  • Planned

• Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Beauty
  • Escape
  • Charmed

• A lot of times I watch sporting events, and there are things I want to say and things I see that don't get said or talked about.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Want
  • See
  • Said

• We believe that an Iraqi founding national assembly, freely elected, must decide the future of Iraq.

  

  Jalal Talabani
  • Believe
  • Future

• There are no sure answers, only better questions.

  

  Dick Van Dyke

• I was proud of 'Robin Hood,' even though critics wrote negative things. But I had to laugh when this big, shaven-headed Hungarian stunt guy first saw me. He said, 'You Jonas? You playing Robin Hood? You need to go to the gym today.' So I thought, 'I'm going to show people.'

  

  Jonas Armstrong
  • People
  • Guy
  • Today

• I never thought I might become famous. It takes getting used to.

  

  Jose Reyes
  • Famous
  • Used to

• When I'm sick of myself, and when I don't know what to say as a solo artist, I can write a song for a movie. When I don't know where to turn musically, being in a band - Rilo Kiley or Jenny & Johnny - the collaborative nature is really exciting.

  

  Jenny Lewis
  • Movie
  • Nature
  • Song

• I've been lucky enough to be in this amazing band, and to me, a band is really a collaborative unit, and that's definitely been what Sonic Youth has been.

  

  Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth
  • Band
  • Lucky
  • To Be