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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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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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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We have to deal with issues like inequality, we have deal with issues of economic dislocation, we have to deal with peoples fears that their children won't do as well as they have. The more aggressively and effectively we deal with those issues, the less those fears may channel themselves into counter-productive approaches that pit people against each other.
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I was the fifth child in a family of six, five boys and one girl. Bless that poor girl. We were very poor; it was the 30s. We survived off of the food and the little work that my father could get working on the roads or whatever the WPA provided. We were always in line to get food. The survival of our family really depended on the survival of the other black families in that community. We had that village aspect about us, that African sense about us. We always shared what we had with each other. We were able to make it because there was really a total family, a village.
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I recognize that I had a good deal of good luck in my life. I came along at a time when it was pretty easy to get a job in journalism. I went to work at CBS News when I was about 22, and within a year or so was reporting on the air.
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What is important is to win.
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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.
