Ray Stevens Quotes
George Jones may be gone but his music will live on forever. What a great voice and a great friend.
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I've never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that - of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.
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As we get more transparent with data sets about infrastructure and systems management, I have a feeling we'll see big changes in how we think about complexity and our relationship to our actions.
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Are we a Christian nation now? It's doubtful. But did we start out as one? Without question.
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My parents were ordinary people; we lived in a small apartment.
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Every relationship comes with a shelf life; that duration could be a minute or even a lifetime. If, for whatever reasons, a relationship cannot last a lifetime, contrary to what the two people imagined, then both the individuals have to be communicative and have to understand and accept the reality.
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Life isn't fair, and it isn't government's job to make life fair. But if you're not willing to give up on yourself, then we shouldn't give up on you, either.
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I do believe that all of the world needs reform. The reform must take place everywhere.
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Christians take Scriptures out of context to try to justify or to vindicate retreat and cowardice.
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Because I was always a fat child, I got fatter and fatter, and I ended up 18 stone and with a 40-inch waist.
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I've sorta learned that I'm so tired of taking myself so seriously. It's so great to show up at work and truly enjoy every word you say.
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I think my whole generation's mission is to kill the cliche.
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As the captain, I was going to be having the dominant role in most of the episodes, and that was appealing. I wasn't interested in coming to Hollywood to sit around.
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I am not a politician by nature, but I will say I think there need to be more women in FIFA, and I would be open to having those conversations when the time is right.
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I would sit on the street corners in my hometown of Indianola, Mississippi, and I would play. And, generally, I would start playing gospel songs.
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When I was in my teens I had issues with OCD.
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When someone asks about a career in fashion, I say start at the bottom. If you want to start a business, you have to know it from the ground up.
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57: It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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America enjoys the best health care in the world, but the best is no good if folks can't afford it, access it and doctor's can't provide it.
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And nothing to look backward to with pride, and nothing to look forward to with hope.
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For reasons I don't fully understand, tragic love has a certain appeal.
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No one will ever make necessity not happen.
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As someone who grew up in tough circumstances, I know that being on public assistance is not a spot that anyone wants to be in.
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There are fifty who can reason synthetically for one who can reason analytically.
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George Jones may be gone but his music will live on forever. What a great voice and a great friend.
