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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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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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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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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My father came from old money. There was less of an expectation for the children to earn a living.
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My children do not know what it's like to flip around channels. They either go to Netflix, Apple TV, or they pull up YouTube, and they can watch their shows.
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Due to my sometimes erratic behavior, my children tried very hard to avoid me and not do anything to set me off.
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It's hard to think it's important to try out as cheerleader when you're starring on Broadway. But you do kind of miss the things that I now see my children doing. I'm just happy they are not actors. The Valentine's Day dance is really important. Pitching in Little League is very important. And the medals and the scouts are really important.
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You don't really know what your children are made of until the mommy engine of the family shuts down, and they are forced to step up and become the care-takers.
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My mother was a children's librarian, and I was raised on lots of English children's literature. It gave me this weird idea that I was English.
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It is an occupational risk of biologists to claim, towards the end of their careers, that the problems which they have not solved are insoluble.
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Having lots of people talking highly of you and respecting your art and your work, this is one of the best feelings that you can have.
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The 8 P.M. hour in the cable news world is currently driven by the indomitable Bill O'Reilly, Nancy Grace, and Keith Olbermann. Shedding my own journalistic skin to try to inhabit the kind of persona that might coexist in that lineup is just impossible for me.
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I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.
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You shall leave everything you love.
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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.
