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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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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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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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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There's no glamour in stupid mistakes.
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To me, the word 'hero' hasn't got positive or negative value - 'hero' is the person who leads you through the story.
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It is a great deal of difference to receive an honorary title or a title in his profession.
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I always envisioned myself being a rapper and being in the game and having success, but you never know what it feels like or how you're going to be when you're there.
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As someone who started a company with an idea of creating a luxury brand with a soul, I needed to learn more about how I effect change.
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The more one analyses people, the more all reasons for analysis disappear. Sooner or later one comes to that dreadful universal thing called human nature.
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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.
