Lee Ranaldo Quotes
When you listen to early Leonard Cohen records or Joni Mitchell records, you feel like a window is being opened into someone's life.
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It is easy to see what many people, women especially, admire about Sarah Palin. Here is a mother of five who can see the bright side of having a child with Down syndrome and still find the time and energy to govern the state of Alaska.
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For me, each nuance of a color is in some way an individual, a being who is not only from the same race as the base color, but who definitely possesses a distinct character and personal soul.
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I have a day job. I can make movies when I want to.
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I've never actually directed anything I haven't made up. I've never adapted anything.
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All of the songs my grandparents and parents listened to are called boleros - they're all love songs. They're about giving your heart to a person. It's a culture that is so romantic and passionate, and that's something that I'm very proud of. We grew up with nothing, so we just want to live a life full of love.
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When I was writing 'The Satanic Verses,' if you had asked me about the phenomenon that we all now know as radical Islam, I wouldn't have had much to say. As recently as the mid-1980s, it didn't seem to be a big deal.
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Being someone with Latin roots, so many doors are constantly closed for you because people put you in a category, and the thing I've always wanted to avoid is categorisation.
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For a writer, life is always too short to write. I will just try my best during what remains of my life.
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If I could be more vague I'd write more about people in my life, but I hate hurting feelings or making people feel uncomfortable. I've done that before. Unless they're sad songs. Those get finished fast, but the mean ones often end up at the back of the bottom drawer and it's probably for the best.
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I'm not looking to go out there and make a rhythmic Timbaland track.
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I had studied at Harvard and MIT astronomy and a lot about the heavens and the star system and so forth.
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The E.U. can deliver on its citizens' needs and make its partnerships work only if we all act together - E.U. institutions and national governments, at all levels, united.
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I can still put down some pretty nasty stuff on paper, which is what I enjoy doing.
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The United Nations is our one great hope for a peaceful and free world.
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I am unboreable in the great outdoors.
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After reading and studying and getting in touch with the amount of information that I had while I was researching to play Pablo, it just reinforced the idea that I had that the war on drugs is a big flop.
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Sometimes I still go round the house making weird noises and stuff, so in that aspect, I haven't grown up!
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Love is so unconditional; love liberates; love is the reason why I do what I do, and so I think it is the greatest gift we have.
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I don't think people care about the mechanics of songwriting.
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Growing up on the plantation there in Mississippi, I would work Monday through Saturday noon. I'd go to town on Saturday afternoons, sit on the street corner, and I'd sing and play.
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There is no remedy but love for the great superiority of others.
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The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.
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Sometimes in public you don't feel like being "on." But it's OK. It beats working anyday.
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When you listen to early Leonard Cohen records or Joni Mitchell records, you feel like a window is being opened into someone's life.
