John Ray Quotes
If wishes were butter-cakes, beggars might bite.If wishes were thrushes, beggars would eat birds.If wishes would bide, beggars would ride.
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I do constantly get to change the way I look, which is sort of an old-school idea of acting.
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The Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, said an eminent scholar, have God for their Author, the Salvation of mankind for their end, and Truth without any mixture of error for their matter.
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The thing that is so great about Ang Lee is the diversity in his filmmaking, from 'Brokeback...' to 'The Hulk.'
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I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.
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My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.
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If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.
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If you allow thousands or millions of unidentified persons into your house, the risk of... terrorism will significantly increase.
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You can't fight the fact that Detroit is a de-industrializing market and it isn't facing dramatic, positive transformation.
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For me, standup will always be some part of my life, and other things will move around and find their place.
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As I was coming out of the closet, our car was hurtling over an embankment.
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Well, I met Frank Sinatra and Bob Dylan in the space of 15 minutes. Frank Sinatra kissed me on the lips. He kissed me on the lips. And then he gave me a filterless cigarette. And then I met Bob Dylan. I came off all lightheaded and had to go sit on his dressing-room steps.
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We haven't seen the turning point yet, but we're sticking to our bottom line, for the environment and the health of the country.
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Affluence means influence.
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Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.
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There's more than one way to sense violence.
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There is only one thing about which I am certain, and this is that there is very little about which one can be certain.
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'Damn you!' Dagenham raged, 'Don’t you realize that you can’t trust people? They don’t know enough for their own good.''Then let them learn or die. We’re all in this together. Let’s live or die together.'
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Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.
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I have a lot of college football players in my Brain Bank with CTE.
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I probably have a higher opinion of my writing than the average person, at least when I'm in a good mood, but I don't really think of my plays as only being relevant to a particular month or year.
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God is that, the greater than which cannot be conceived.
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There's a laundry list of reasons why not to borrow from your 401(k). While the money is on loan, it's not working for you - and if you leave your job, you'll have to pay it back in 60 days or treat it as a taxable withdrawal.
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Well begun is half done.
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If wishes were butter-cakes, beggars might bite.If wishes were thrushes, beggars would eat birds.If wishes would bide, beggars would ride.
