Ryan Stiles Quotes
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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You don't stay married for thirty-nine years because of sex or even because of love, but because your partner is a real friend to you, because they respect and regard you.
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I suffer the mortification of seeing myself attacked right and left by people at home professing patriotism and love of country who never heard the whistle of a hostile bullet. I pity them and the nation dependent on such for its existence. I am thankful, however that, though such people make a great noise, the masses are not like them.
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At school, I was a tomboy, and it would be me and all my guy friends.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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There is no other prize in any country that carries the prestige that a Nobel bestows.
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I hate being manipulated by song. Don't tell me what I should be feeling. I don't want cellos or violins to be telling me that I should be bawling right now.
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I love it and really, really enjoy weight training. I love free weights. I find it really rewarding.
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I like to do Pilates.
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Squid don't eat jellyfish, but they eat the things that eat the jellyfish. Jellyfishes put on a lightshow to attract a larger predator. It's caught in the clutches of something like a fish and has no hope for escape unless its lightshow attracts something bigger that will attack their attacker.
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I know he played on the last record but I don't wake up in the middle of the night thinking of Eric Clapton.
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We firmly believe the environmental issues cannot be addressed without extensive public participation, but people need to be informed before they can get involved.
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I love to come to L.A. to visit, and then I like to come to rainy old London because it's home.
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I believe in hard work, not luck factor. The best efforts will reap the best fruits. Nobody can take all the credit. We don't even talk about the efforts of the director, the writers, other technicians, etc. They all together take a film to another level.
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When you are present, the world is truly alive.
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The beginning of wisdom is to admit to being inept. We’re all a bit slow. We have our moments, but in the end, we have to resort to bumbling through. It is what makes conviction so egregious.
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We smooch hardcore.
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The idea that owning a gun in America was an individual right only dates to the 1980s.
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In Ethiopia... you might find a seven-year-old expected to take 15 goats out into the fields for the whole day with only a chapati to eat and his whistle. Why are we so afraid to give our children responsibilities like this?
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My father's body lies in a stone tomb high on a hill. People walk by, pause, think their own thoughts about him and move on, back to their own lives. I can never move on. He is everywhere.
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Once brave politicians and others explain the war on drugs' true cost, the American people will scream for a cease-fire. Bring the troops home, people will urge. Treat drugs as a health problem, not as a matter for the criminal justice system.
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I'm a stay-at-home mom. And I have got three boys. And I have a 15-month-old. And I'm going to real estate school.
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The actual thought of not really having a home was, for me, very depressing, and it was something that I was dealing with for quite some time.
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I'm going to buy some green bananas because by the time I get home they'll be ripe.
