Ray Romano Quotes
I don't want to be a spokesman for family values, but that's the way my standup is perceived.
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Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
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I found it peculiar that those who wanted to take military action could - with 100 per cent certainty - know that the weapons existed and turn out to have zero knowledge of where they were.
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The field of the novel is very rich. If you're a composer, you're well aware of the history of composition, and you are trying to make your music part of that history. You're not ahistorical. In the same way, I think, if you write now, you are writing in the historical context of what the novel has been and what possibilities it has revealed.
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We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development.
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The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say.
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I made a very conscious decision to quit acting. I was on a series, and we were in the process of renegotiating. They had an idea of what they thought I was worth, and I had an idea that was quite different.
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For a while, I became an atheist; now that I'm grown up, though, I'm not hard-edged enough to be an atheist. Even though I live with a flaming atheist, I love going to temple. I love all the rituals.
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Customers are enormously punishing when companies don't meet their expectations.
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In the film industry, you are fictitious, just like the characters you play. It has a lot do with a perception about you, and not necessarily you. You are successful because people like that image of you on screen.
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I think every professor and writer is in some way an exhibitionist because his or her normal activity is a theatrical one. When you give a lesson the situation is the same as writing a book. You have to capture the attention, the complicity of your audience.
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I set the goal of getting a book contract by age thirty.
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In life, you need many more things besides talent. Things like good advice and common sense.
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You just put yourself into your work, and you can do anything you want, depending on how hard you want to work for it.
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I really like supernatural stories, but, to me, 'Witches of East End' is really grounded. It's not just going for the magic tricks and keeping it superficial and action-y.
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I know so many Irish musicians. They're all over, because there has been so much emigration from Ireland. Like the Jews.
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It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.
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He climbs highest who helps another up.
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Shane McAnally is a really good friend of mine. He's one of the first guys that really embraced what I was doing with an open mind.
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I went to Moses Malone's golf tournament in Houston, and I've been hooked ever since.
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As a girl, I love the joy, luxury, and effortlessness of experiencing a pedicure on the go.
Jacqueline Fernandez -
We are on our way to blockchains as the fabric of society - the system for what we own (assets), who we are (identity), how we make decisions (governance), and more in an increasingly digital world. It's going to be a wild ride.
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I've never signed any contract and never received a cent from Iraq.
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There's a restaurant I go to whenever I can called The Richmond Cafe. It's a little Thai restaurant owned by a group of Thai women - I think they're all a family, and they're just really, really nice, and they make amazing massaman curry.
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I don't want to be a spokesman for family values, but that's the way my standup is perceived.
