Ray Stevenson (George Raymond Stevenson) Quotes
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As happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!
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People are making judgements about Russian people based on me. This is why I never allow myself any aggression towards my opponent.
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I'm not the girl next door.
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The only people playing the roles of classic rock stars are hip-hop artists, now. Kanye's stage persona, and the way he approaches making albums, and the way he wants to be better than everyone else? That's reminiscent of Freddie Mercury. That's reminiscent of the Beatles.
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An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.
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The more that everyone has access to the same educational opportunities, the more society will tend to accept some receiving disproportionate rewards. After all, they themselves have a chance to be winners.
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When you as a designer design something that burdens a community with maintenance and old world technology, basically failed developed world technology, then you will crush that community way beyond bad design; you'll destroy the economics of that community, and often the community socially is broken.
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To be honest, I was born in luxury. I never saw the dearth of money, so money is not something which motivates me.
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The greedy man is he who habitually eats too much, knowing that he is injuring his bodily health thereby, and this is a vice to which not the gourmet but the gourmand is a slave.
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Design is about point of view, and there should be some sort of woman or lifestyle or attitude in one's head as a designer. So my being able to reach the masses was something that meant a great deal to me - especially for women who could never wear Vera Wang.
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I fight for the debunking of the artist and an end to individual pictures.
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I was a ballet dancer growing up and that's what I was convinced I would be.
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A line has to have a certain number of syllables, and the next line has to be its mirror image.
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Critics are critics: their job is to find things wrong with people.
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In my life, there have been a lot of people who weren't there for me, so to now have people counting on me is awesome.
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A secondhand wardrobe hand clothes doesn't make one an artist. Neither do a hair-trigger temper, melancholic nature, propensity for tears, hating your parents, or HIV. I hate to say it - none of these make one an artist. They can help, but just as being gay doesn't make one witty... the only thing that makes one an artist is making art.
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My fans are all pretty cool, you know; I've never really seen anybody fighting on Twitter, no death threats, no harsh language, no gay slurs, nothing like that.
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I didn't think, 'I'd really like to work in TV; maybe I could carve out a niche where I talk to people who are somehow involved in marginal or difficult lifestyles... ' It was something I gravitated to very naturally as a subject area, almost instinctively, and somehow turned into a TV career without meaning to.
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I think the idea of losing your hair is still very potent, emotional thing.
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I think the most fascinating thing in terms of relationships is imagining all the different variations that they could be.
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I don't have a dark side at all. I just like violence.
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To say that prediction is the purpose of a scientific theory is to confuse means with ends. It is like saying that the purpose of a spaceship is to burn fuel. … Passing experimental tests is only one of many things a theory has to do to achieve the real purpose of science, which is to explain the world.
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The real political task in a society such as ours is to criticize the workings of institutions that appear to be both neutral and independent, to criticize and attack them in such a manner that the political violence that has always exercised itself obscurely through them will be unmasked, so that one can fight against them.
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You just have to open the newspapers in most Western news to see real violence.
