John Ray Quotes
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Anything that anybody wants to give me is great! I've had folk songs, heavy metal songs, jewellery... I would never call anything any fan gives me weird, as it's how people express what they like about the books, what it means to them, and that's a wonderful thing.
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The rich don't win elections. They support the money, but what percentage of America are rich? What is it, 2 percent? But they all have one vote.
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No matter how you cut them, paste them, rotate them, or distort them, lip syncing and air-guitar playing are fundamentally foolish activities, and anyone seen to be engaging in them with anything approaching a straight face is, by definition, taking herself or himself much too seriously.
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For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.
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I like to go hear jazz late-night up in Harlem.
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Everybody goes through a phase of fatigue, and I am no different. Re-inventing yourself in your profession is the key to deal with fatigue.
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I theorize that there is a spectrum of consciousness available to human beings. At one end is material consciousness. At the other end is what we call 'field' consciousness, where a person is at one with the universe, perceiving the universe. Just by looking at our planet on the way back, I saw or felt a field consciousness state.
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Creativity can only be anarchic, capitalist, Darwinian.
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As it has for America's other indigenous peoples, I believe the United States must fulfill its responsibility to Native Hawaiians.
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We will naturally pursue our goals on the strength of our own resources, skills and enterprise. But, we know that we will be more successful when we do this in partnership with the world.
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I believe in the power of weakness.
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I have to be working, doing things. That's the way I grew up and the way I was taught.
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If I wrote a Jewish superhero, he'd have awesome time-traveling powers. I'd call him Doctorow.
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Striking out Ruth and Gehrig in succession was too big an order.
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On 'Chatroom,' everyone was so nice, and we had a really great time together; we were around the same age and got on really well.
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I feel like I've set the bar fairly high, and I want to keep living up to that bar.
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My entire childhood was steeped in poverty. For me, poverty, in a way, was the first inspiration of my life, a commitment to do something for the poor.
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In my view, the first requirement for success for an entrepreneur is to dream big. The second aspect that prevents entrepreneurs from succeeding is fear of failure.
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If we get into the mind-set where the good becomes the enemy of the best, we will get nothing.
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There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her beauty and her chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men. A thousand hearts beat happily; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage bell. But hush! hark! a deep sound strikes like a rising knell!
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I believe that if you don't have systems, you don't have a business - you simply have a job for yourself. My challenge has been to build those systems in a new restaurant setting.
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Women are actresses, tuning their part to each little audience.
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In a thousand pounds of law there is not an ounce of love.
