Ray Manzarek Quotes
John is going to get about a million dollars for doing nothing. He gets an equal share as us, and we were out there working. A free million bucks. That's a gig I'd like.
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Commitments the voters don't know about can't hurt you.
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I was a child of a tech family. My grandfather was a nuclear physicist and was always a gadget guy.
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We demand that people should be true to the pictures we have of them, no matter how repulsive those pictures may be: we prefer the true portrait in all its homogeneity, to one with a detail added which refuses to fit in.
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Who said that being Latino is to be a stereotype? Characters are stereotypes when making plans or without shades. I do not believe in the picture or model established in the movies.
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In some causes silence is dangerous.
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Some people are ok with doing nothing all day after they retire, but then some people if they had nothing to do would go mad and start banging their heads against a wall.
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You can no longer just have a magazine that shows you this glossy impervious image of women - in the studio, artificial, wearing a push-up bra.
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What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people with their own humanity.
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In pitching, control is the main thing-one thing you've got to have. Few pitchers have it. In batting, it is timing-waiting on the ball, not hurrying the swing-just as it is in golf. Most hitters in baseball swing too quickly. They can't wait on the pitch. Old Joe Jackson could wait. So could Speaker and Cobb
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I heard them cry - the peacocks. Was it a cry against the twilight Or against the leaves themselves Turning in the wind, Turning as the flames Turned in the fire, Turning as the tails of the peacocks Turned in the loud fire, Loud as the hemlocks Full of the cry of the peacocks? Or was it a cry against the hemlocks?
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Why stress tomorrow when you can stress today?
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If nations could only depend upon fair and impartial judgments in a world court of law, they would abandon the senseless, savage practice of war.
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I believe the divine is part of the world, not in a pantheistic way but by way of the movement of the Spirit.
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From where we lived, to practise in St Louis was an hour-and-a-half drive each way, so that took a lot of the time. So really, our lives just took different paths.
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I wanted to be a violin-maker like my dad, and then I wanted to be a doorman in my building.
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I think of everything as comedy, but I don't think of it in terms of sitcom comedy, I think of it in terms of Chekhov comedy. Chekhov called his plays comedies. There's always a mixture of a laugh with sadness. So the plie to the laugh is sadness.
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I think I must have a super-fast metabolism.
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A cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day.
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I'm disappointed we lost but I'm more disappointed with the way we played.
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I was the walrus, but now I am John. And so my friends, you'll just have to carry on. The dream is over.
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Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.
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John is going to get about a million dollars for doing nothing. He gets an equal share as us, and we were out there working. A free million bucks. That's a gig I'd like.
