John Ray Quotes
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The Government of Iraq also owes a debt to the American and coalition forces who are fighting the insurgency and helping put that country back together after decades of repression.
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The more you work and get known for something, sometimes things begin to narrow a bit, and your opportunities get more... specific.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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What I like about Oxford is how small it is; it's really more of a big town than a city.
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I feel that the world is increasingly about the bottom line, and not so much about human respect or human dignity. In that regard, people who care about other people will not be in a position to make choices and do things that other people who they're competing against will get to do.
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But the fact a person denies that he is theorising is no reason for taking him at his word and failing to investigate what implicit theory is involved in his statements.
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If you taste something, you're not at the maximum of your ability. What I think about in competition is temperature and texture. It has nothing to do with taste or emotion.
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I feel like, as a celebrity, I have a responsibility to tell important stories.
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If I wasn't in fashion, I would have been a psychiatrist.
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Right now I'm really happy with how things are going with my chess career, so I'm not thinking of doing anything else.
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When you make a movie, you really have to be clever and smart, find something new for the worldwide audience because you aren't making a movie for just France or Germany; it's for everyone in the world.
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It's always good to be known. You want to build your brand up, want to build your name.
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With Facebook, you're not really allowed to be unhappy. Think about it: There's only a like button. Yes, you can be angry, but it's only lighthearted rage. On Reddit, perhaps because you can be anonymous, people are willing to be openly sad or angry. They are more honest.
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If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.
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I can't even imagine how it must be to be a solo artist playing with session musicians.
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Actually, my dog I think is the only person who consistently loves me all the time.
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I acted in high school and studied at the British American Drama Academy in Oxford for one summer. I minored in theater, and I was always acting growing up and stuff, but really, I was just more interested in the comedy of it all. So for me, it's always comedy, and then acting is just one medium of comedy.
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I love the immediacy of those old analog machines; it's really inspiring. You just set them up to play, and they go, playing the same thing until you switch the pattern.
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I don't use composers. I research music the way I research the photographs or the facts in my scripts.
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It seems to me that good novels celebrate the mystery in ordinary life, and summing it all up in psychological terms strips the mystery away.
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The rapid proliferation of cell phones in Afghanistan proves that anything that adds value to people's lives spreads like brushfire - and commerce is certainly a force that could add value for Afghanis.
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You watch the Supreme Court in action on these cases, and they are a conflicted court. However, when it comes to speech issues generally, the court has been protective.
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California is a tragic country - like Palestine, like every Promised Land.
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Like blood, like good, and like agen make the happiest marriage.
