Jim Gray Quotes
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We were five kids at home, and my mother and grandmother ensured that we all had a very grounded upbringing in Madras. Even in school, I never used to tell anyone that my dad was an actor.
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Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think about.
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Ordinary people who have lots of good ideas want more than a suggestion box, and they need a union to represent that thinking.
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Every child should at least grow up in family rather than without one.
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There is nothing I'm any more passionate than empowering the next generation.
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In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.
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I can't tell you how many things I've worked on where I sat on it for a few years, and then somebody else did something very similar. Whether it's some weird vocal effect you hear on another record, or a drum beat, or even a song title, a subject matter, or a mixture of different kinds of music.
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Before mobile phones, I used to call my parents from a phone box and reverse the charges.
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This is my homeland no one can kick me out.
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Romney still enjoys the Republicans' traditional advantage among voters who are veterans, but the Obama campaign is confident it can chip away at that.
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Fits did not go over well in my house. There was a lot of discipline and obedience and you had to be very ladylike. Ladies didn't curse and I still don't curse in front of my parents.
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The way to screw up somebody's life is to give them what they want.
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I have always loved music. My mom used to sing with my sister and I when I was younger, and I was in choirs and loved to perform, but when I was in college, I went on a study abroad to Trinidad, and while I was there, I sang backup at my first concert.
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I'm glad that our music motivates people to exercise. If I had to pick just one song to run to, it would be 'Violet' by Hole. It makes me want to run.
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A development deal is where they're giving you recording time and money to record, but not promising that they'll put an album out.
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Up until now, I had ideas that I wanted to try but didn't have the opportunity to do them.
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In Australia, getting an audition can be a rarity. There just aren't as many opportunities.
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I'm drinking lots of rum and popping pinks and greys.
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With the notion of marriage - an exclusive, emotional, binding 'til death do you part' tie - becoming more and more an exception to the rule given a rise in cohabitation and high rates of divorce, why should the federal government be telling adults who love one another that they cannot get married simply because they happen to be gay?
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I try to stay away from processed foods. I eat lean meats and get as many veggies as I can on my plate, so when mum calls me on a Sunday, I can tell her I'm eating enough veggies! I love pasta, but I don't eat carbs a whole lot, and I love fruit.
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Sometimes fear grips me that these fragile moments of life will fade away. It seems that I write against erasure.
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That's so ridiculous. Go up the chain and find out where on earth they got that policy. They could be costing people a lot of money.
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I appreciate life, talk a lot, love to laugh, and am very optimistic.
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You always hear that politics is a function of timing and pacing.
