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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Some hedge fund managers have made big bucks trading oil futures - George Soros is one.
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I think he was explicit that it was a slave labor situation, but I was not alarmed at that point, because there were so many tragedies involved in that war. That was the first time I had any indication that something was sort of strange.
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Between Trump's election and Brexit, there were all sorts of opinions coming out of the woodwork that I thought had died out a long time ago. I was like, 'What's the point?' All we do is bad things. The history of humanity is the history of people exploiting each other.
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I discovered that bone china was a British invention, which had been developed by a pottery sited next to a slaughterhouse - 'bone' china, of course, contains bones, though we are inclined to forget that.
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Time is just a moment that we occupy in this brief spin around the planet.
