Ray Stevens Quotes
There is none so blind as he who will not see. We must not close our minds, we must let our thoughts be free. For every hour that passes by, we know the world gets a little bit older, it's time to realize that beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder.
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It's very hard to maintain focus in the gym.
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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There's no such thing as a non-final cut director.
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'Sleepless' was the first thing that came out and really gained a lot of traction online.
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Acting was something I had to do.
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Every single figure on Mount Rushmore was a third party at one time or another, so third parties become major parties, and I think that the Libertarian Party may become my major party.
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No doubt we have to have bigger projects, bigger industries, basic industries, but it is a matter of the highest importance that we look to the common man, the weakest element in the society.
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Sylvester has a great popular sense, as good as any writer I've ever worked with. He knows what audiences want to see, and what they don't want to see.
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It was always from the love of strong women that he had found whatever joy had been granted him in his life.
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Of what good is democracy if it is not for the poor?
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Unfortunately for the modern dramatist, during the past century and a half the public realm has been less and less of a realm where human deeds are done, and more and more of a realm of mere human behavior. The contemporary dramatist has lost his natural subject.
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Use these rules then, and trouble thyself about nothing else.
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I'm nuts, I'm rich, and boy, do I love a fight!
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My mom would put me in these preppy little suits and slick my hair to the side. I have these baby pictures of me where I'm this little preppy kid with a sweater tied around my neck.
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I don't ask writers about their work habits. I really don't care.
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The possessions of the rich are stolen property.
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The difference between me and them is that I'll look at Jesse Jackson and I'll see four Jesse Jacksons, and they'll just see one, the clown ambulance chaser.
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In choosing any role, I ask the same questions: what kind of part is it? is the role challenging? does the director have a vision? is the story moving? etc.
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I want to use my voice to better health care for pregnant women.
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Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.
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Judy Henske, who was the then reigning queen of folk music, said to me at The Troubadour, 'Honey, in this town there are four sexes. Men, women, homosexuals, and girl singers.
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There is none so blind as he who will not see. We must not close our minds, we must let our thoughts be free. For every hour that passes by, we know the world gets a little bit older, it's time to realize that beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder.
