Linda Ronstadt Quotes
This is an election year, and I think we're in desperate trouble and it's time for people to speak up and not pipe down. It's a real conflict for me when I go to a concert and find out somebody in the audience is a Republican or fundamental Christian. It can cloud my enjoyment. I'd rather not know.
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If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.
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The songs I've written that are the strongest, I'm like: 'I don't know where that came from. It just kind of popped out.' You feel you can't take a whole lot of credit for it. I didn't purposefully will it into existence.
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I'm the Chris Martin of hip-hop.
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Smoke machines are the best!
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.
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Travel writing is harrowing. You are in paradise, more or less, having to prove it is paradise. It is hard to have a good time trying to figure out a way to say you are having a good time, whether you are having it or not, even in paradise.
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I love being a father. It's one of my big jobs is just being a parent. It's one of my favorite things I do.
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In big science, the role of the individual scientist must be carefully preserved. So is the one of original ideas and of contributions.
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Some persons have ventured to say that it is only since Englishmen ceased to believe in the Bible that they began to discover how beautiful it was.
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When I go into the studio, I completely detach. I let my emotions come out.
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I wish my teammates, coaches and the entire Lions organization all the best.
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God is the King. In him exists all legal authority.
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Athletes don't like to get up early, but it never bothered me.
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The opportunity, number one, to work with Ang Lee is an amazing thing for me.
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I know of some guitar-based rock bands that refuse to record anything that they can't play live. But some of the best stuff I come up with are studio-based performances - bringing out whatever accident I had in the studio and building a song around that.
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I have a very personal interest. I am a Miami-Dade voter. One of the issues is that my vote and so many other votes of women and African Americans in Florida are being discounted or discarded. I want my vote to count.
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Fahrenheit 9/11 took public domain information that should have been on the news every night and put it in a film that a lot of people went to see. But still Bush has never had to answer those charges.
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My thing is, when you put a bunch of rules on a tour, you have to hire three more people to enforce all the rules. So, with me, I want everyone to feel comfortable. It's a lot of little moving parts out here, and little hiccups will come. At the end of the day, the show's going to go on, and I want everybody to truly enjoy it.
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I'd like to win an Oscar.
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The Chinese are good at repression and can be pretty ruthless about it.
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This is an election year, and I think we're in desperate trouble and it's time for people to speak up and not pipe down. It's a real conflict for me when I go to a concert and find out somebody in the audience is a Republican or fundamental Christian. It can cloud my enjoyment. I'd rather not know.
