Ray Stevenson (George Raymond Stevenson) Quotes

I didn't want people to go out wanting to go tool up against the bad guys (and at impressionable ages). I said, don't shy away from the violence or pull back on this, commit to this.

Ray Stevenson

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• There are a lot of shows that have secrets and string people along and use the secrets of the narrative engine to keep people coming back every week. I don't know if those programs even have an answer. I don't know how they build their shows.

  

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• I think for a long time I wasn't really out to myself growing up in Omaha, Neb., to a Catholic conservative family. It took me a while to come out to myself, and not long after that, I came out to them. I think that it really couldn't have been a better experience. They were all immediately supportive.

  

  Laura Ricketts
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• I always hope to be a better person tomorrow than today.

  

  Mahershala Ali
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• It's just really fulfilling to celebrate with a group of folks, a team, than it is personally.

  

  Sam Hunt
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• I'm not a person who embraces challenges. I run from challenges. I break world records running from challenges.

  

  Larry David
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• There's no people like show people.

  

  Irving Berlin
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• I should have felt pity, but I felt only contempt. I knew had it been a girl she would have mourned less, and it angered me.

  

  Tanith Lee
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• Sitcoms routinely portray women hitting men, almost never portray men hitting women. When he fails to leave, it is not called 'Battered Man Syndrome'; it is called comedy.

  

  Warren Farrell
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• I often find myself going back to Darwin's saying about the duration of a man's friendships being one of the best measures of his worth.

  

  Charles Darwin
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• Nobody wanted to dance, when i had a lot of time on my hands, now i have a lot of hands on my time, and everybody wants to be a friend of mine, wo wo.

  

  Outkast
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• I have a huge note on my phone where things just start popping up. It doesn't make that much sense to me at the time, but once a song is finished, I can read into it and figure out who the characters are in my life.

  

  Lucy Dacus
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• I guess by taking lessons early on, and really trying to play all the rudimentary stuff, and try to have it sound as good as my teacher. It took a lot of practice, which I enjoyed, and still do.

  

  Matt Cameron Soundgarden
  • Good
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• We have a revolutionary history to honor and uphold. Which was what Nelson Mandela did. He reminded us of that which we need to be reminded, over and over again, about our own best selves.

  

  Charlie Pierce
  • History
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• Scales played in the correct musical way are very exciting and rewarding.

  

  James Galway

• Getting 'SNL' was pretty amazing, so just to be able to have an eight-year career there and be really happy with everything I did, it was pretty big.

  

  Bill Hader
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• It does not require many words to speak the truth.

  

  Chief Joseph
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• The positive aspect of my negative view is essentially that you shouldn't own cash and government bonds, but you should be in assets like real estate or equities or precious metals or in commodities.

  

  Marc Faber
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• I've never had a very quiet voice. I tried in choir to make it smaller, and it just didn't work out. And I listened to a lot of soul music when I was growing up on my own accord. But I was mostly into Mama Cass and Gladys Knight, and they all had big voices too; just different than mine.

  

  Mary Beth Patterson
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• When a leader makes the choice to put the safety and lives of the people inside the organization first, to sacrifice their comforts and sacrifice the tangible results, so that the people remain and feel safe and feel like they belong, remarkable things happen.

  

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• I think the thing I miss most in our age is our manners. It sounds so old-fashioned in a way. But even bad people had good manners in the old days, and manners hold a community together, and manners hold a family together; in a way, they hold the world together.

  

  Nancy Friday
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• I write about violence as naturally as Jane Austen wrote about manners. Violence shapes and obsesses our society, and if we do not stop being violent we have no future. People who do not want writers to write about violence want to stop them writing about us and our time. It would be immoral not to write about violence.

  

  Edward Bond
  • People
  • Time
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• I'm a germ-phobe when I meet a lot of people or shake a lot of hands. I always have hand sanitizer and alcohol swabs so I can sort of go back and forth between the two.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • People
  • Hand
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• Laughter is the best medicine - unless you're diabetic, then insulin comes pretty high on the list.

  

  Jasper Carrott
  • High
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• I didn't want people to go out wanting to go tool up against the bad guys (and at impressionable ages). I said, don't shy away from the violence or pull back on this, commit to this.

  

  Ray Stevenson
  • Age
  • Guy
  • Violence