Ray Romano Quotes
I have the show because I'm insecure. It's my insecurity that makes me want to be a comic, that makes me need the audience.
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Good things happen when you meet strangers.
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Trying to think about the rest of the team over myself or my scoring is something that I never really had to do before.
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I like watching films that can play in any language because they're essentially silent.
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Historically, the Balkans have been an incubator of war.
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I have for some time urged that a nuclear abolition summit to mark the effective end of the nuclear era be convened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the 70th anniversary of the bombings of those cities, with the participation of national leaders and representatives of global civil society.
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The very first role I ever played was as a 17-year old South African girl who dreamed of being a star and left home to meet her mother in the big city so that she could pursue that dream. I left South Africa and met my mother in Vancouver and not long after that was given the opportunity to perform on the stage and have people chant my name.
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One of the most interesting aspects of the film project was collaborating with so many people - directors, filmmakers, and writers - over a five-year period. I learned that there are two components to this.
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What I do miss that I don't get anymore? You're going to think I'm crazy, but you want the truth, so here it is. The lights! I miss the spotlights. I don't mean it figuratively. I mean it literally. I love the feeling of lights.
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Running for attorney general troubled me. Because I was worried I would simply become just a figurehead and that's not me.
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I'll work out with my trainer twice a week, and I'll do some Power Pilates and might throw in some yoga. I love to row also. The main thing for me is just to move every single day for 30 minutes to an hour.
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I sort of always had an inkling towards some kind of an art form. I grew up in a very small town, and I just figure-skated. My dad played hockey and I was surrounded by sports, but it wasn't quite doing it for me. I wasn't totally fulfilled, and I did a lot of skating.
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It doesn't make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.
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High Romanticism shows you nature in all its harsh and lovely metamorphoses. Flood, fire and quake fling us back to the primal struggle for survival and reveal our gross dependency on mammoth, still mysterious forces.
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My dad was a surgeon in Egypt. He was a general surgeon. As a little boy I always admired what he was doing, and I wanted to do surgery.
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I sit at this really weird crossroads. My job requires me to take in calories. I take care of myself. I eat healthy. I exercise a lot. But then I have to go to events in cocktail dresses and look fancy, and people want to interview me about what I'm wearing, and then I'm compared to people who are wearing size 2 all the time.
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Black people are pledging their fealty to the state, and yet they aren't getting the same return. This is theft. It's systemized.
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As long as we decline to allow sick, uninsured people to just lie down and die on the side of the road, everybody has to have insurance for the health care system to work sanely.
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Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.
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I'm empathetic to a fault. I really do - embarrassingly enough - tear up when someone squishes a bug in front of me.
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The result, the Walker Colt, was one of the most effective and deadly pieces of technology ever devised, one that would soon kill more men in combat than any sidearm since the Roman short sword.
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What the American family does not want is to pay an increasing fraction of their budget, their precious dollars, for energy costs.
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A person standing in front of an audience without enthusiasm for his subject and his actions is disconnected from his spirit.
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I have the show because I'm insecure. It's my insecurity that makes me want to be a comic, that makes me need the audience.
