Ray Allen Quotes
By practicing the virtues we cultivate the soil from which healthy emotions sprout; by letting go of our character defects we drain the swamp in which diseased emotions breed.
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There are times I think it might be nice to have deep-pocketed limited partners to provide me with some cushion. But I enjoy having no responsibilities except to myself, financially.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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I came from Yale, where you get an extracurricular degree in self-importance because you went there. When AIDS happened, I was treated like an outcast. And I don't like that feeling.
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Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
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In the end, you have to protect yourself at all times.
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Ultravox were the blueprint for what I wanted to do, but I stumbled across them by accident.
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With the scale of our traffic, content library and monetization ability, we are confident to see profitable growth in the future.
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The hard-core Left loves ridiculing Christians who believe scripture that says, 'God created the heaven and the earth.' They say that it's anti-science to believe that an almighty God would do such a thing.
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Everybody has to look after their own economy and follow the rules.
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The hajj is one of the five essential practices of Islam; when they make the pilgrimage to Mecca, Muslims ritually act out the central principles of their faith.
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And that had a powerful appeal, particularly to those who had been denied the choice to stay on at school, to go to university, to be something else, other than going down the pit.
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There's nothing good about divorce.
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I always thought that there was something in hip-hop culture that was the misfit of all the musical styles, where they didn't really belong. They're kind of like, 'No, we're a real culture! We're not going anywhere, you can't get rid of us!' I really liked that there was a rebelliousness about it. I connected with that.
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I'm thinking of taking up golf, but the idea of spending time with golfers frightens me.
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I've never seen 'Gone with the Wind.' I don't know if that's something to be embarrassed about, but I know that I should have seen that movie by now.
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I now resolved to go to bed early, with a firm purpose of also rising early the next day to revisit this charming walk; for I thought to myself, I have now seen this temple of the modern world imperfectly; I have seen it only by moonlight.
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When we need somebody haunted we investigate … When we investigate we do so noisily always.
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I quickly learned that reading is cumulative and proceeds by geometric progression: each new reading builds upon whatever the reader has read before.
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I do love pears. All types of pears. Not too firm, not too soft; they have to be at the right time of their life.
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I was a model for eight years. That's the deal: People look. But I didn't like being looked at and never seen.
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I think people like Bill Gates, who have given away enormous sums of money, are shining examples for all of us to follow.
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Love! What is love? It's nothing. It's just a word. It doesn't exist. Only pleasure is important.
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As a creative person you just get an idea in your head, and sometimes you just can't shake it off.
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By practicing the virtues we cultivate the soil from which healthy emotions sprout; by letting go of our character defects we drain the swamp in which diseased emotions breed.
