Ray Allen Quotes

There is an entire culture out there built around siphoning money from an athlete, and the young men and women who come through just feed the machine.

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• As a filmmaker, I really want to utilize the tools to carry the voice - my voice, and the voice of the characters.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Want
  • Voice
  • Tools

• Right now too much American time and resources are spent dealing with situations caused by our dependence on oil that we import from unstable countries.

  

  Dan Lipinski
  • Time
  • American
  • Too Much

• The whole melodrama of the Middle East would be improved if amnesia were as common here as it is in melodramatic plots.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Here
  • Middle East
  • Improved

• When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Home
  • Play
  • Baby

• You don't realize how much you use your credit card not even to buy things. It's a card you get so you can navigate society.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Society
  • Credit
  • Credit Card

• Out-of-step intellectuals like Noam Chomsky and the deceased Edward Said have often been dismissed as crazy extremists, 'anti-American,' and in Mr. Said's case even, absurdly, as apologists for Palestinian 'terrorism.'

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • American
  • Crazy
  • Said

• You can talk good ideas out of existence.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Good
  • Ideas
  • Existence

• This is the price you pay for having a great father. You get the wonder, the joy, the tender moments - and you get the tears at the end, too.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Great
  • Father
  • Joy

• Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence!

  

  Edsger Dijkstra
  • Never
  • Used
  • Presence

• I've got nothing to be ashamed of.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Nothing
  • Got
  • Ashamed

• It's absolutely true that unless you can instill discipline upon yourself, you will never be able to lead others.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • True
  • Yourself
  • Discipline

• People always make war when they say they love peace.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • People
  • Love
  • War

• Die Botschaft hör ich wohl, allein, mir fehlt der Glaube

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Die

• If things do go badly, will I wonder for the rest of my life what I might have done to help?

  

  Ben Carson
  • Life
  • Done
  • Help

• The reason why Apple computers have worked so well over time is that, unlike Microsoft, they don't bend over backward to be compatible with every piece of hardware or software in the digital universe. To code or create for Apple, you follow Apple's rules. If you're even allowed to.

  

  Douglas Rushkoff
  • Time
  • Why
  • Universe

• The other work we started in 1992, it is called Over the River, Project for the Arkansas River in the state of Colorado, we haven't got the permit yet. And, we are working at both of those, trying to get the permit. Therefore, we do not know which one will be realized next.

  

  Christo
  • Work
  • Trying
  • River

• Rod has always been like my third child and my most demanding boy out of the three.

  

  Penny Lancaster
  • Boy

• No single achievement in science is possible without the painstaking work of the many hundreds who have built the foundation on which all new work is based.

  

  Polykarp Kusch
  • Work
  • Science
  • Single

• If there is a God, He is infinitely incomprehensible, since, having, neither parts nor limits, He has no affinity to us. We are then incapable of knowing either what He is or if He is. [So] you must wager. Let us weigh the gain and the loss in wagering that God is. Let us estimate these two chances. If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then without hesitation that he is.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • God
  • Limits
  • Gain

• I've also gotten messages from men and women who are not the most attractive, in their minds, or are self-conscious about their weight. They're thanking me for doing songs like 'Proud Mary' and shaking a tailfeather, because they say I seem real comfortable in my skin and it made them want to be comfortable in theirs.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Men
  • Women
  • Real

• Always be a poet, even in prose.

  

  Charles Baudelaire

• There is an entire culture out there built around siphoning money from an athlete, and the young men and women who come through just feed the machine.

  

  Ray Allen
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