Lee Ranaldo Quotes
It's easier to write about a celebrity, a personality, than it is to dig in and write about the music.
Quotes to Explore
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If I'm going to change, my life and experiences should change me for the wiser and more profound.
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Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
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I inherited some Chanel pieces from my mother. I've worn Prada - absolutely. Wonderful designers are inspiring. I also love designers not known. I love a lot of vintage pieces. I am pretty minimal, pretty classic.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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I'm as addicted to 'Power' as I am 'Empire.' I'm just grateful. We get a chance to have two phenomenal shows that we can enjoy. So when 'Empire' is over, 'Power' starts. When 'Power' is over, 'Empire' starts.
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When we talk about the minimum wage, we have to ask ourselves what it is that we owe both our workers and employers. I think clearly we owe them fairness.
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We have a tax code whose complications and levels of unfairness and levels of choosing people to give tax breaks to and choosing people to deny them to is thousands of pages long with endless complications and unbelievable manipulations by everybody.
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I didn't want to be an author; I wanted to be a scientist. Not that I didn't love literature, but I couldn't distinguish it from reading, and reading was already my default activity, almost like breathing.
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Always say 'yes' to the present moment... Surrender to what is. Say 'yes' to life - and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you.
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'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' is one of the greatest films of all time.
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People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.
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When it comes to helping make the country strong, we in Congress have an important role to play.
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I just want to make a name for myself and get to the next level.
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I'm childish and silly. Most people tease me because I'm a bit daft.
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I jokingly say if there was one great thing about, you know, the Lebanese Civil War was that it forced me to read.
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We're very lucky, men, that there are these fabulous parts. Women - once you've done all the parts in Shakespeare, they start running out. So you can pick and choose and find something to energise you.
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Gospel is just the truth of the word of God. Anybody can sing it, anybody; anybody can perform it.
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I must go deeper and even stronger into my treasure mine and stint nothing of time, toil, or torture.
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On a Terrence Malick set, your thoughts are his voice. You think you're thinking, but actually he's thinking for you. He speaks to you, and he's the voice in your mind.
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A little-appreciated downside of the technology revolution is that, mainly without thinking about it, we have given up 'locational privacy.'
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When it's said and done, the one thing I want to leave on this earth is hope. I have felt hopelessness, and it's a terrible feeling. Hopelessness will destroy you. I want to bring hope to other people.
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It is better to be a has-been than a never-was.
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It's easier to write about a celebrity, a personality, than it is to dig in and write about the music.
