Ray Stevenson (George Raymond Stevenson) Quotes
The pamphlets going back to London telling of the violent derring-dos of the Bahamian pirates were the ones that brought infamy to the names of Charles Vane and Blackbeard. How much of that is really documented history? It carries a flavor with it, but take all this with a pinch of salt.
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My parents separated when I was very small. I grew up with my mother, and I was a single child then. She was very independent, doing her things and having fun alone and working.
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As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing.
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The two contemporary writers whom I consider as role models are Janet Malcolm and Michael Lewis.
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Sex is a part of love. You shouldn't go around doing it unless you are in love.
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Obviously, I want to sell records, but I do it because I find it therapeutic. In music I can be myself.
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It just kills me when people buy a dog when there are dogs in shelters. I still get emotional when I think of Karl sitting in that shelter. I wasn't looking. I didn't even think I had time for a dog, and then I met this little one and he needed help. It's been so amazing to see him transform into a happy and confident companion.
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I live my life. And the best place to do that is Chicago.
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I have never cared enough about money to worry about spending it, and have been fortunate to make enough to be spoiled rotten.
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I like acting, but I like filmmaking better. I went to film school. I want to make films.
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There's no question that the mind-body connection is real, even if we can't quantify it. Hope is one of the greatest weapons we have to fight disease.
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We actually know that all lives do matter. And we believe it is so much so that we had to create Black Lives Matter.
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Everyone who is grieved at anything, or discontented, is like a pig for sacrifice, kicking and squealing. Like a dove for sacrifice is he who laments in silence. Our one distinction is that it is given to us to consent, if we will, to the necessity imposed upon us.
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I wanted to talk about my life. There is so much. I was 18 when I made the record, and I had a lot to say.
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Genuine love for Jesus manifests itself in obedience to His commandments.
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I have since wandered among men of many races and many religions.
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They [the Templars] had read Avicenna, and they were not ignorant, like the Europeans. How could you live alongside a tolerant, mystical, libertine culture for two centuries without succumbing to its allure, particularly when you compared it to Western culture, which was crude, vulgar, barbaric, and Germanic?
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I'm continuously playing this game of what's real and what's not real, and having to balance and judge and realize that there are things that carry real weight in the world and actually have power in them. And there are things that are just pointless, and you don't have to pay attention to those things.
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I'd found that what I wrote and put out on records somehow was not fitting into how I perform on stage.
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I think I have great hands out of the backfield.
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We saw what happened in Jimmy Carter's administration. President Carter was a good man with the best of intentions. But he came to Washington without a good working relationship with Democratic members of Congress, which played a big part in his administration's problems.
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Emotions are the colors of the soul.
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I'm not a violent person.
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The future is not an inheritance, it is an opportunity and an obligation.
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The pamphlets going back to London telling of the violent derring-dos of the Bahamian pirates were the ones that brought infamy to the names of Charles Vane and Blackbeard. How much of that is really documented history? It carries a flavor with it, but take all this with a pinch of salt.
