Ray Manzarek Quotes
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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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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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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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The more closely you get in touch with your dreams, the more able you are to make them real. The more vividly you consider how you want your world to be, the more real and effective tools you will have for making it so.
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We all have roles in life. I'm a dad, a husband, this and that, but basically I only feel justified in being alive when I'm on the stage.
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The first movie that I saw was Godzilla and I loved it.
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I'm lactose intolerant, so usually pizza makes me feel horrible. But I'll occasionally go very hard and do pizza and pineapple.
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I thought I would turn the corner when I didn't play. It wasn't feeling that bad when I'd walk up stairs, so I thought it was getting better. Once I took one step out of the batter's box trying for a double, I couldn't do it. I don't have time to be waiting.
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You go through phases. You have to reinvent reasons for playing, and one year's answer might not do for another.
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I was raised on technology. I grew up in Livermore, California, a town of physicists and cowboys. My parents worked at the government laboratories there. So technology was very normal for me.
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Transcendental meditation is like a car, a vehicle that allows you to go within. It's a mental technique.
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Time is just a moment that we occupy in this brief spin around the planet.
