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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An artist can be truly evaluated only after he is dead. At the very 11th hour, he might do something that will eclipse everything else.
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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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Preventing children from going to school, and preventing teachers from doing their jobs, seems to be not just undemocratic but intolerable.
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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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Divorce is not the end of the world. It's worse to stay in an unhealthy marriage. That's a worse example for the children.
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I first considered writing 'New York' in 1991. I'd been in the city for a decade, was married to an American wife, and sending my children to New York schools. I was even on the board of a coop building. But I wasn't sure how to organize such complex material, and for many years I put the project aside.
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There is little that gives children greater pleasure than when a grown-up lets himself down to their level, renounces his oppressive superiority and plays with them as an equal.
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I credit my mom with inspiring in me a love of design, matched by her creative problem-solving abilities. This is a woman who could find an old, discarded piece of furniture, bring it home and turn it into something fabulous.
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My grandmother always said, 'when you receive a paycheck, you always have to put a certain amount to your savings, and 10 percent right away to charity.'
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I would live in a world of Christ-like humans, but not one full of Christians, may God forgive me.
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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.
