Ray Stevens Quotes
People will remember a good comedy song a lot longer than they would some of the so-called straight love songs.
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The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.
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I think whenever you see what may be the seeds of a third party, you need to be very skeptical because there's not a very good track record for third parties.
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But if I played well and prepared myself properly, then all I had to do was control myself and put myself in a position to win.
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I grew up in a Ukrainian Catholic-turned-Christian household, and that is my family's faith.
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People look at me, they know I've appeared in costume dramas and they automatically assume I must be a Tory, I must be a certain type of person.
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I took a political stance early on, but I don't think my work is overtly political. I respond to events.
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I didn't really decide that I wanted to be an astronaut for sure until the end of college.
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Humility is a great quality of leadership which derives respect and not just fear or hatred.
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When it came to the Vietnam War, Mr. McNamara was an early advocate of escalation but came to realize the flaws in the American approach earlier than many of his colleagues. Yet in public, he continued to defend the war.
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Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next 'Gone With the Wind.'
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I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.
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Maybe he just looks good compared to the bores he's running against.
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I think that on the whole man would be living a more natural life if he were a vegetarian.
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There were several Battles between the Yorkists and the Lancastrians, in which the former (as they ought) usually won.
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We had a street gang that was very vivid - very surreal. We were fans of Monty Python. We'd put on performances in the city center of Dublin. I'd get on the bus with a stepladder and an electric drill. Mad shit. Humor became our weapon. Just stand there, quiet - with the drill in my hand. Stupid teenage shit.
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I would love to do a Fred Astaire/Gene Kelly type movie musical - a fun, song and dance, romantic comedy. Or, even just play the lead in one of those broad comedies - that would just be fantastic.
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I'm always playing these mendacious characters who end up hoisting themselves by their own petard.
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And I've played piano since I was little, so I was originally the piano player in the band.
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I'm carded for R-rated movies. And I get talked down to a lot. When I try to go rent a car or buy an airplane ticket or other stuff adults do, I get 'Okaaaaaay, honey.' I remember when I was 18, getting crayons in a restaurant.
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Only by being obsessed with little things do amazing things emerge.
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Crime stories show us the part of people's lives they try to keep hidden.
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The zeal which begins with hypocrisy must conclude in treachery at first it deceives, at last it betrays.
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In a best-selling book, 100,000,000 Guinea Pigs (reprinted nine times by 1935), a pair of consumer-advocate authors complained that American citizens had become test animals for chemical industries that were indifferent to their customers' well-being. The government, they added bitterly, was complicit.
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People will remember a good comedy song a lot longer than they would some of the so-called straight love songs.
