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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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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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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Jazz scares me. I've witnessed so many incredible singers and jazz musicians. Pop and soul music have always been the things that I felt like I could do.
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As a male writer, women are always what men pursue, and their world is always a mystery. So I always tried to present as many views as possible on women's worlds.
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I would love to have a rapper on one of my songs, like Ludacris, or the 'it's so hot in here' guy, Nelly.
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My wife and I do not argue. We communicate. We talk. But we've never fought in our entire relationship.
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I don't bother about how people feel about me. What matters to me is how I feel about them.
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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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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 always want to remain inspired.
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I'd like to meet someone. I'm not scouring the streets, but I'll keep an eye out.
