Ray Guy Quotes
Writing is like hitting yourself on the head with a hammer. It always feels good when you finish.
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The pop-star thing bores me because it's somebody programming someone else. Stand over here, sing that, no, sing it like this, talk like that, when they ask you this, don't say that, say this, hold that, drive this, stay here, live there - you're not even a human being. You're a puppet.
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People are fed up with the career politicians who created this mess or failed to prevent it and neither was acceptable, and the only way we could change that was by sending a different type of person to Washington.
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Only a fool does not fear actors, but you can't beat them, and if you can't beat them, join them, as they say. As I've got older I've become very interested in that part of the work.
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To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.
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The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.
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Your barber always knows everything that goes on in the town, doesn't he?
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When I get into the studio, I write from my heart.
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To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
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I had a reporter ask me what it was like to have my best years over so soon. It stayed with me.
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What came up at age 49 is I realized that of all the things I'm interested in, the thing I'm most interested in is figuring out what makes people tick, why people think the way they do, why they act the way they do. And I realized that music is such a great way to investigate why people do what they do.
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I am an artist, and I have the ability and the free will to choose the way the world will envision me.
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Anything worth doing good takes a little chaos.
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The substance of what it means to be a geek is essentially someone who's brave enough to love something against judgment. The heart of being a geek is a little bit of rejection.
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My mom has every issue of 'Billboard' I've ever been in.
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The hired preachers of all sects, creeds, and religions, never do, and never can, teach any thing but what is in conformity with the opinions of those who pay them.
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I am a Brazilian before I am an architect. I cannot separate the two.
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I love mentoring young girls. I've always been like that.
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Detroit is drunken idiots. It was no surprise to me. I performed with Kenny Rogers for one year as his opening act, and I got to visit every major American city and notice the audience, and Detroit was one of the worst.
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Save the gerund and screw the whale.
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As long as you live keep smiling because it brightens everybody's day.
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Solitude is a breeding ground for idiosyncrasy, and I relish that about it, the way it liberates whim.
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Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.
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As a leader, you have to have the ability to assimilate new information and understand that there might be a different view.
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Writing is like hitting yourself on the head with a hammer. It always feels good when you finish.
