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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Chicago seems a big city instead of merely a large place.
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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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I'm not a frustrated concert composer, and the concert pieces I've done have been a small part of my work. What I've sought there is instruction, variation from the demands of film and relief from its restrictions.
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As a director on 'The Office,' there's a tremendous weight that comes with directing features. I was being asked to direct a show that had already won an Emmy for Best Comedy. Steve Carell and the cast had already won the Screen Actor's Guild Awards.
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If you look at the history of how information flows, there was a time that newspapers were kind of in the place that Google and Facebook are now - how do we get more people to buy a copy? Then there was a shift in the early 20th century. They needed to do better, and readers and consumers demanded that of them.
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I remember this song by Clay Walker that came out in the '90s called 'This Woman and This Man,' and it was about breaking up, loss, the pain of moving on, and my parents were just getting divorced at the time, so I listened to it over and over again.
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Time is just a moment that we occupy in this brief spin around the planet.
