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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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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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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If your government had given me a thousandth of the sum it spent to depose me, I could have won that war.
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Doing nothing while the middle class is hurting. That's not leadership. Loose regulations and lax enforcement. That's not leadership. That's abandoning our middle class.
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If we are going t stick to this damned quantum-jumping, then I regret that I ever had anything to do with quantum theory.
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Leadership in the church is not entrusted to successful fund raisers, brilliant biblical scholars, administrative geniuses, or spellbinding preachers...but to those who have been laid waste by a consuming passion for Christ - passionate men and women for whom privilege and power are trivial compared to knowing and loving Jesus.
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The physicians of one class feel the patients and go away, merely prescribing medicine. As they leave the room they simply ask the patient to take the medicine. They are the poorest class of physicians.
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I'd found that what I wrote and put out on records somehow was not fitting into how I perform on stage.
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The area where we struggle the most is often the area of our greatest effectiveness
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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.
