Ray Guy Quotes

The old attitude toward newspapers was that they were completely disposable - today's newspaper is tomorrow's fish wrap.

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• I just get really defensive as soon as anyone comes near my personal life. I made a decision early on that it's strictly off-limits. No exceptions.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Life
  • Decision
  • Early

• I have a couple of gold teeth. I had braces for a year but I didn't wear the retainer.

  

  J Mascis
  • Couple
  • Gold
  • Year

• I think, when I was younger, I believed in - and yearned for - conventional beauty. I thought there was a spectrum from ugly to beautiful, and that you could objectively plot everyone you saw along it.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • Beautiful
  • Thought
  • Beauty

• Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Diversity
  • Just
  • Big

• Celebrities and 'famous' people are just regular folks. I know, it's a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.

  

  Adam McKay
  • People
  • Know
  • Famous

• I always feel I had a very lucky life. For example, I sure didn't want to go in the army: when I was drafted in the Korean War, I wanted to go as a photographer. But luckily, they put me in the infantry - luckily because the official photographer was photographing the medal awarding and all the official situations.

  

  Harold Feinstein
  • Life
  • War
  • Army

• In my personal life, I really like the look of vests. I wear fitted, business ones, and perfectly preppy sweater vests that I can knit myself.

  

  Hannah Kearney
  • Life
  • Business
  • Myself

• It was psychobabbler Abraham Maslow who wrote of the phenomena of self-actualization. What Maslow failed to grasp is that reaching true self-actualization can only be ultimately achieved when you have your own brand of ammunition.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • True
  • You
  • Brand

• I could not finish the rest of the tours the band had planned. I was replaced by Matt Cameron. The next years of my life were about recovery, healing, and right living. I never lost the need to create.

  

  Jack Irons Pearl Jam
  • Life
  • Lost
  • Band

• Mankind is not special by virtue of our address in the universe, or what spins around us, or because life originated here. Slowly, but surely, we've been compelled to renounce the comfort of these beliefs.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Life
  • Universe
  • Comfort

• A pig's trotter is a fantastic thing. The first night of my honeymoon in Paris, my wife fell asleep in her steak tartare, so my trotter kept me company.

  

  Fergus Henderson
  • Night
  • Wife
  • Paris

• I can achieve that by personally relating the words that I am saying to something I have known in my life.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Life
  • Words
  • My Life

• Yeah, I mean the material, directors, the other cast, and if you think you can do something with the character then you do it and go from there. I am looking forward to doing some smaller movies.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Character
  • Looking Forward

• My illness is excruciating and difficult to cope with. It takes over your entire life and causes more suffering than I can describe.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • Life
  • Suffering
  • Difficult

• Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Style
  • English
  • Wishes

• Knowing was better than not knowing. But not by much.

  

  Orson Scott Card

• Now there is no murder without a motive.

  

  Agatha Christie

• It is necessary and critical for states to have flexibility to determine how to identify and improve schools.

  

  Betsy DeVos

• Watch your attitude. I don't mean to sound like so much of an old head, but there is another generation behind me, out there, doing it now. I find that, with the whole hip-hop generation, there's a lot of attitude. Whether it's confidence or arrogance or whichever, I will always say to a young guy, “Nobody wants to work with an asshole.” You know, you can still be a great player. You can still play all of the baddest licks in the world. But if you don't have a good attitude, nobody's going to work with you.

  

  Christian McBride
  • Play
  • Attitude
  • Generation

• It's nice. You meet some of your neighbors while you're there.

  

  Chris Stein Blondie
  • Nice
  • Neighbors

• I think Christmas, for me, has always been about family, as cliche as that sounds.

  

  Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts
  • Family
  • Christmas
  • Cliche

• I’m sorry for blaming you for everything I just couldn’t do, and I’ve hurt myself by hurting you.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Hurt
  • Sorry
  • Blame

• The old attitude toward newspapers was that they were completely disposable - today's newspaper is tomorrow's fish wrap.

  

  Ray Guy
  • Attitude
  • Tomorrow
  • Newspapers