Ray Guy Quotes
I've written just about everything for the sake of putting shoes on the children's feet - and a bottle of gin in the cupboard.
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I love what I do professionally, I'm really blessed. But my priority is my husband and my children.
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I think that there's no doubt that as I see friends, families, children of gay couples who are thriving, you know, that has an impact on how I think about these issues.
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To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.
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I never exercise, and I eat everything.
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If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.
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I'll always love movies. But there's something I love very much about TV, when you shoot episodes while other episodes are still being written.
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I don't want to be an absent mother. Otherwise, why have children?
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Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.
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People still try to sell books that way - as 'books can take you to foreign lands.' We've given children this idea that reading and books are a nice option, if you want that kind of thing. I hope we can get over that idea.
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When I was in college at Carnegie Mellon, I wanted to be a chemist. So I became one. I worked in a laboratory and went to graduate school at the University of Pittsburgh. Then I taught science at a private girls' school. I had three children and waited until all three were in school before I started writing.
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If you work hard, you do your part, you should be able to give your children all the opportunities they deserve. That is the basic bargain of America.
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Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.
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For the sake of our health, our children and grandchildren and even our economic well-being, we must make protecting the planet our top priority.
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My girls and I regularly go through their rooms to find clothes and toys to donate to charities. I firmly believe that children who have been given so much need to experience the joy that comes from giving.
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The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.
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All across this country, undocumented immigrants are living in fear of seeing their families torn apart because of our broken immigration system. Many of those immigrants are children who were brought here at a young age through no fault of their own.
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A vegetarian is a person who won't eat anything that can have children.
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For me, my films are not like my children. They are like my ex-wife. They gave me so much; I gave them so much; I loved them so much; we part ways, and it's OK, we part ways.
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Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us.
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I stared at the Ohio River every day as a child, a thing that for me is almost more symbol than river. The formation of personality is inextricable from place. It strikes me as an interesting example of dependent co-arising; land shapes the organism, which then reshapes - literally and figuratively - the land. This because of this; not that because not that. Nothing is separate, least of all the literary mind.
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Practical dreamers have always been and always will be the pattern-makers of civilization.
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It is women who love horror. Gloat over it. Feed on it. Are nourished by it. Shudder and cling and cry out-and come back for more.
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I've written just about everything for the sake of putting shoes on the children's feet - and a bottle of gin in the cupboard.
