Ray Manzarek Quotes
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We are not accepting that countries just get to sit back and let the United States meet threats that are going to roost in their worlds just as easily as they are in ours.
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If you are trying to get people to work on a problem together, it's best if they don't know where you, as the supervisor/manager, stand on the question.
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As a woman, I've learned that having a uniform of your staples or setting your look and saying what distinguishes you - like red lips or hair or whatever - leaves so much time for the rest of the day.
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All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted.
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But the one thing that I did do was establish myself as a good actor.
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When you listen to my music, you hear that there are all these voices going on in different parts of the song. That's because I was always around so many voices in church.
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When they tried me out as a host on TV, I found that I just couldn't be that gregarious person. I was stranger than that.
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I have a lot of friends who do what I do. Either they're actresses or singers or things like that.
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I drink a gallon of water a day.
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The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.
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The thing that bothers me about journalism is the false equivalency we sometimes place on certain issues.
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I admired the work ethic of the cowboys I read about. The idea of these young people taking on this much responsibility was impressive. I would like modern readers to have an appreciation of this.
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I have developed my most meaningful relationships online. None of them live within driving distance. None of them are about my own age.
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I was told so many times when I was a kid, 'I can't be friends with you, you're too intense, you're too sad all the time.' I really thought that when I made the first album that everyone would understand me, all the people who weren't my friends would become my friends.
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Discovery is fun. I am incredibly open to everything.
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If I'm really honest, I'm not a huge fan of scary films.
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Great teams argue. Not in a mean-spirited or personal way, but they disagree when important decisions are made.
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Music is spiritual. The music business is not.
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If you never put your life in someone else's hands, then you can't really expect them to put theirs in yours. In the long run, never trusting anyone is a hard way to live.
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There are two kinds of people in one's life-people whom one keeps waiting-and the people for whom one waits
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If I wrote in Jacob Riis' time, I'd be writing about teeming slums in our cities and kids dying of tuberculosis or outhouses in Philadelphia or kids losing their toes because they were living in homes without heat. He took on a battle in 'The Battle with the Slums' - and we won.
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The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down.
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Time is just a moment that we occupy in this brief spin around the planet.
