Ray Lewis Quotes
Don't walk through life just playing football. Don't walk through life just being an athlete. Athletics will fade. Character and integrity and really making an impact on someone's life, that's the ultimate vision, that's the ultimate goal - bottom line.
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I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.
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Some things are so tragic that you don't know what's funny in it, and some things are so ridiculous you don't know if it's worth talking about it.
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Comfort and luxury are usually the chief requirements of life for your ego - its top priorities tend to be accumulations, achievements, and the approval of others.
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Polls that have been taken by kindergarten, first- and second-grade teachers indicate that 30 percent of the kids have been deprived in some way so that they are physically unable to keep up with the class.
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You can't always be in awe of someone's talent, living with them.
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America faces a new race that has awakened.
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Close friends consider me a literary snob.
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The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.
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I trust my hand. If I go into a space with a roll of paper, I can make a work, some kind of work, and feel pretty satisfied.
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I am quite looking forward to working with Shah Rukh Khan.
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If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.
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Well, I'm not a critic, I'm just a worker. So, I'm always grateful for anything the critics say - good or bad.
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I learned early on that in the real world, the masks of tragedy and comedy adorn the proscenium of every life.
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I didn't like the idea of changing myself for the industry. I felt to have my teeth straightened and bleached and to starve myself to change my body was not respecting who I was.
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I'm interested in the truth, and unauthorized biographies are not. Yes, I would like to correct those errors someday.
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When I got to Iraq, my world focused in on one mission. It was incredibly rewarding.
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In real life, every person is the leading man or woman. We don't think of ourselves as supporting or character actors.
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People have different views of how you deal with different issues in literature, and, frankly, long may it last that there is a range of views.
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I like things that make you grit your teeth. I like tucking my chin in and sort of leading into the storm. I like that feeling. I like it a lot.
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If atomic bombs are to be added as new weapons to the arsenals of a warring world, or to the arsenals of nations preparing for war, then the time will come when mankind will curse the names of Los Alamos and of Hiroshima.
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The positions I played in football, being a quarterback and a defensive back, you had to kind of have a little independent thinking.
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The interesting thing about fiction from a writer's standpoint is that the characters come to life within you. And yet who are they and where are they? They seem to have as much or more vitality and complexity as the people around you.
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Russians are very discerning about ballet. They're very opinionated about what classical ballet is.
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Don't walk through life just playing football. Don't walk through life just being an athlete. Athletics will fade. Character and integrity and really making an impact on someone's life, that's the ultimate vision, that's the ultimate goal - bottom line.
