Ray LaMontagne Quotes
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I just heard the latest joke about my hair: 'Do you know what that is on her head? It's a steering wheel to drive the state.'
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The Baltic Sea is becoming more and more polluted. Not everybody living near the shore of the Baltic Sea is protecting it. It is the water of life for countries like Finland and Sweden.
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What about that Dave Brubeck live album, with a version of 'Like Someone in Love' on it, and long sax solos by Paul Desmond? That's what got me hooked on jazz.
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I really want to work for myself and build a business from nowhere.
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I notice me. I notice you too. And there are simple things that we don't even try anymore. There's a way out of this. Beat the time. And every time I turn around we got some clever way to put each other down.
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'For a long time I used to think that anal sex was how lawyers were conceived.'
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A lot of companies have nice-sounding cultural values like integrity, respect, and excellence, but if those values don't map to specific behaviors, then they quickly get lost. Instead, we see what's called a 'halo effect' where leaders tend to overvalue certain attributes and undervalue others.
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As unhealthy as I am, I'm weirdly aware of exactly how my body functions.
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Seriously, a smaller, leaner, cleaner, tuskless and more secretive elephant is exactly what is needed. It definitely would live longer.
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I'm lucky to be in a profession where you can keep getting better.
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Offers for me to play dances, society parties, even churches, were now coming in regularly. For most dates I was paid the sum of one dollar per hour, and they always tipped me at the end of the night.
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I love getting oxygen facials because I travel a lot. My skin gets pretty dry with all the airplanes.
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Testing is overrated.
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The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die.
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From an early age I was told that I was expected to do more than continue to run a small business. Education was important and seen as a way of moving forward.
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You will launch many projects, but have time to finish only a few. So think, plan, develop, launch and tap good people to be responsible. Give them authority and hold them accountable. Trying to do too much yourself creates a bottleneck.
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To furnish the means of acquiring knowledge is … the greatest benefit that can be conferred upon mankind. It prolongs life itself and enlarges the sphere of existence.
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America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world.
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It was a fatal day when the public discovered that the pen is mightier than the paving-stone, and can be made as offensive as the brickbat. They at once sought for the journalist, found him, developed him, and made him their industrious and well-paid servant. It is greatly to be regretted, for both their sakes.
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“I am so useful. I am not alone. And neither is he. “It must be nice,” said Aubergine suddenly, “to have a friend like that, and like things so much.” Yes.
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In this journey, the fear creeps in from time to time. The hint of that is there because there's an unknown factor to everything. That's true in everyone's life. I don't choose to live there; I let it spark me.
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I do not believe I have any immortality. The greatest evil in the world today is the Christian religion
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I'm flying everywhere in my private jet.
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I feel calm when I'm on my own.
