Ray Conniff Quotes
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Star Wars was magnificent, but you could tell Darth Vader's ships were glued together.
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Best player I ever played against? I mean, I played against many, many good players, so I don't know who to keep. I would say Ronaldo the Fenomeno.
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I'll tell ya, when you open up that can of dab, it's always fresh.
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I was never supposed to make it to Congress. I was a staff person.
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In high school and college, I did not have any Christian friends except my best friend Sarah, who I actually 'brought to Jesus.'
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There are jobs, particularly database-oriented ones, for which computers are necessary, but for everyday office life, I question whether they have brought the productivity that their enormous cost, up to £10,000 per person, demands.
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As a model, I really stand for not being a model, if that makes sense. When I started, the whole idea of the model was very different; it was a bit stuck-up. Not stuck-up, but no one was trying to have fun, or not even have fun, but be willing to smile.
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Whatever people thought the first time they held a portable phone the size of a shoe in their hands, it was nothing like where we are now, accustomed to having all knowledge at our fingertips.
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Stand by your man. Give him two arms to cling to and something warm to come to.
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You reach a point in your career when the weeks turn into a month or more of the phone not ringing.
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In the course of the reform, some new circumstances that we had not anticipated have appeared.
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My penalty for rocking the boat was being traded.
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None of them want to delay. Understand that. None of them.
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When I just sit around my house and work, I can work two, three hours, and then I go off and ride a horse or do something that I perceive to be a lot more fun.
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A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
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Companies often visit my office, or invite me to theirs, to brief me on new products, Web sites, or software before they are released - usually a few weeks or days ahead of time. I don't review most of these products.
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Unfortunately, the true force which propels our endless political disputes, our constant struggles for political advantage, is often not our burning concern for democracy, it is often of our dedication to the principle of the rule of law.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
I never thought of myself as a performer or songwriter or singer.
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I had more pressure when I competed in Moscow. I had no pressure in Montreal because I only went to do my routines and hoping I didn't mess it up when I was on the bar. When I came back, 10,000 people were at the airport and I thought, 'Why?' because, in my mind, I hadn't done anything different from what I used to do in my gym.
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Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink.
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Listen to the stage manager and get on stage when they tell you to. No one has time for the rock star bullshit. None of the techs backstage care if you're David Bowie or the milkman. When you act like a jerk, they are completely unimpressed with the infantile display that you might think comes with your dubious status. They were there hours before you building the stage, and they will be there hours after you leave tearing it down. They should get your salary, and you should get theirs.
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Treasures are not won by care and forethought but by swift slaying and reckless attack.
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I didn't get paid. I didn't even care that I didn't get paid.
