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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Daft Punk wouldn't have normally fit into anything that was pop on the radio, but they just did it.
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Sadness is so ungrateful.
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He can provide offense, and yet he knows when he has to be relied on to play solid, physical defense.
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It's nice to feel the fans are behind you. You shouldn't concern yourself with things like that - but it does matter.
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What are you gonna fill your life up with when you don't have that ultimate satisfaction or peace in your life? You try to fill it up with wealth, pleasure, honor, power, sex, drugs and Rock and Roll to try to feel good.
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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.
