Ray Fearon Quotes
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I was raised in Argentina until I was 11 and now I go back there a lot, at least twice a year. It's a country where I feel very comfortable and it represents an important period in my life.
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Unless they're superhuman, nobody's going to look perfect all the time.
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I'd never been published when I was young.
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I myself am mixed race - my mother is Korean, and my father is an American Jew - so I've always felt other.
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I told God, 'I don't want a man. I don't want more gold albums. The only thing I want is the love, friendship, and presence of my mother.' And God gave it to me.
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Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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It's always hard to break an independent picture from the pack.
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My parents are both average size. For them to have a child who was very, very different and very, very small must have been incredibly hard.
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Commercials on television are similar to sex and taxes; the more talk there is about them, the less likely they are to be curbed.
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I am an Air Force brat who grew up at various Air Force bases. I changed six schools in about five years and got stability for the first time when I was sent to a boarding school, Rishi Valley. I lived outside of a cantonment-style living and was among an eclectic mix of kids and got exposed to books and other things.
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Many of the problems of poverty and need are really problems of physical infrastructure: not enough hospitals, too few schools, insufficient roads, bridges, and a lack of tools. This is what makes traditional philanthropy so daunting. You could build a thousand new hospitals in some parts of the world and barely make a difference.
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I used to have a lovely Chelsea loft - then I got divorced.
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When I go to school, I'm always happy because it's a normal kid thing.
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What we discovered, counter-intuitively, is that when you start killing a cancer cell, one of the things it does in order to survive is to spread even further. It causes itself to form new blood vessels. We've termed this 'reactionary angiogenesis.'
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It's hard for the majority of people to accept what they don't understand.
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A lot of people had a misconception that I would be the perfect poster child for Islam. So I got a lot of Instagram comments like, 'Oh, you don't have your neck covered, you're not a Muslim!' My thing is, stop judging women, especially if you're a man, because you don't know the responsibility that comes with wearing a hijab.
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I don't know if most people know it or not, but I produce, like, 95% of my own stuff.
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I don't look at Instagram. I don't have much to do with social media.
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When we did Cubist paintings, our intention was not to produce Cubist paintings but to express what was within us. No one laid down a course of action for us, and our friends the poets followed our endeavour attentively but they never dictated it to us.
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I don't mind there being some medievalists around for ornamental purposes, but there is no reason for the State to pay for them.
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As much as I love to shop online, I also love walking the streets on a beautiful day and seeing what finds I can discover in a small shop or vintage store.
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I was not so committed to financial success that I was willing to abandon my principles and priorities. One of the most visible examples of this is our decision to close on Sunday.
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I'd like to meet someone. I'm not scouring the streets, but I'll keep an eye out.
