Linda Ronstadt Quotes
I think if the United States gave anything to culture at large in the 20th century, the most important contribution made was the popular song.
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How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair!
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I'm an optimist about other people. I'm not an optimist about myself.
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That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.
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There is very strong historical data that suggests the way societies grow is by making large, long-term investments.
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Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.
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Actors are greedy. They can never be satisfied. I want praise as well as box office returns.
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I've done a lot of drama, and comedy was the one genre I was not being offered. So I became obsessive about getting one.
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Over the next few years the boardrooms of America are going to light up with hot flashes.
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My plan is just to love harder than I've ever loved before, hide nothing, and embrace that I'm an imperfect human being. Oh, and sadness - sadness is everything.
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Language as a communication tool is the primary element from which literature is created. Even in pre-literate societies, it exists as songs, riddles, or epics that are chanted.
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Looking out at the ocean, it's easy to feel small - and to imagine all your troubles, suddenly insignificant, slipping away. Earth's seven oceans seem vast and impenetrable, but a closer look tells another story.
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Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
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Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It's like, 'Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a reader.'
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I do love traveling, so I've been able to travel a lot.
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The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.
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I love books.
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I've been in movies with Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson - but I was on 'The Simpsons,' and finally, in the eyes of my children, I was a star.
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The Companion of Honour I regarded as an award from the country for 50 years of work - which I thought was okay.
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I investigated post-traumatic stress disorder. I've been to a unit where people are suffering from it, and I read a lot of literature. I looked at footage of soldiers in the combat zone. I found 'Restrepo' to be unbelievably useful.
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Maybe that’s what the Masters are afraid of. Maybe celibacy isn’t as necessary as the Rule of Roke teaches. Maybe it’s not a way of keeping the power pure, but of keeping the power to themselves.
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I really like it when movies take a song and use it to counterpoint a scene.
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The abuse of political power is not as important as the loss of lives. Plus there is a process for curing the abuse of institutions.
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Our staff not only received the reports from these agencies, they examined them. They questioned them.
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I think if the United States gave anything to culture at large in the 20th century, the most important contribution made was the popular song.
