Lee Ranaldo Quotes

Of course you want to keep making good records, but I think there were certain aspects to the indie rock situation at that point where we were pushing the envelope a little bit too far. We weren't happy with the distribution we were getting, and a few other things. So for a lot of ways it made sense for us to jump to a major label right then, and it made sense in terms of challenging ourselves to put ourselves in new situations.

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• I'm not interested in what other people are doing. That's their business.

  

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• I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.

  

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• Being on Broadway and getting a Tony nomination - this has been an incredible ride, from rather humble beginnings.

  

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• China is a country, still, of great contrast. While hundreds of millions of people are part of the middle class and yearn for things made in America - American brands, movies, music - there are other hundreds of millions of people throughout China who are living on the equivalent of one U.S. dollar a day.

  

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• I know my fans want me on the screen. But I think hero-worship should not be allowed to corrupt the plot and narrative of a film.

  

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• Celebrities become excluded from everyday life, kind of in exile in an echelon that is deemed better, anyway: Life of celebrity, all the fame and glamor.

  

  Jack Gleeson
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• I like to have friends in the kitchen and make a big mess and use every pot in the kitchen.

  

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• Sword fighting in film is not about how good the fighter is, but how good the actor receiving the blows is.

  

  Takeshi Kitano
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• When you're on the subway in New York, people literally could be 11-inches away from you, and you can't just stare at them.

  

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• We must become bigger than we have been: more courageous, greater in spirit, larger in outlook. We must become members of a new race, overcoming petty prejudice, owing our ultimate allegiance not to nations but to our fellow men within the human community.

  

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• I've always been a fan of science fiction.

  

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• The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.

  

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• I don't want to be in 'Expendables 5.' You can keep those kind of movies.

  

  Ian McShane
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• Not to discriminate every moment some passionate attitude in those about us, and in the very brilliancy of their gifts some tragic dividing on their ways, is, on this short day of frost and sun, to sleep before evening.

  

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• It's very satisfying to promote science and education and see good results. Setting a good example for young people, being a role model, is very important for me.

  

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• Of course you want to keep making good records, but I think there were certain aspects to the indie rock situation at that point where we were pushing the envelope a little bit too far. We weren't happy with the distribution we were getting, and a few other things. So for a lot of ways it made sense for us to jump to a major label right then, and it made sense in terms of challenging ourselves to put ourselves in new situations.

  

  Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth
  • Challenge
  • Records
  • Make