Ray Wise Quotes
I'm interested in directing, but it's a real headache. Directing can be a real pain in the ass, because you not only have to worry about yourself, but all these other people coming to you with their problems. I like just worrying about myself.
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To be perfectly truthful, I was not a very brilliant student, even at chemistry school.
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If you can shrug off a loss, you can't be a winner.
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I clearly believe a lot more than some of my coalition colleagues - Tories - in redistribution and using the tax system for that purpose. I also believe in the government having an active role in the economy, which is having an industrial strategy. I'm not a believer in laissez-faire.
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The Carnegie Foundation is well aware of the fact that their reports frequently find their way to dusty archives in academic institutions, but occasionally people pick up a segment of a report and act upon it.
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I think good companies can navigate being public and doing the right things for their customers.
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Writing sessions can last an hour or sixteen hours, depending on how it's going.
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One of the things Kuhn said about normal science is that people 'expect' things to be discovered.
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Music has always played a big part in my life and, believe it or not, in my soap opera career.
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Contrary to popular belief, I'm not always trying to stand out.
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I used to act in television commercials when I was a kid and a young adult.
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As a European I had fit in almost seamlessly in New York for the last 25 years, but in Oklahoma I stood out like a sore thumb.
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The homosexual community has more acceptance in America than it ever has, and the suicide rate is as high as it's always been.
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The black community now in many ways divided itself the way the larger white community divides itself, over class issues. And that race is no longer the bond that it once was. That's one of the prices you pay for progress.
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In a strange way, I'm way more comfortable onstage than anywhere else.
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It used to be that you needed a $500-million-a-year company in order to reach a worldwide audience of consumers. Now, all you need is a Steam account. That changes a whole bunch of stuff. It's kind of a boring 'gee, information processing changes a stuff' story, but it's going to have an impact on every single company.
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Teams that play together beat those teams with superior players who play more as individuals.
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You can always plan where you think your life is going to go but I don't think you can really plan your future.
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The road to the City of Emeralds is paved with yellow brick.
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There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound.
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“Happy species endowed with infinite appreciation of pleasures and low sensitivity to pain would probably not survive the evolutionary battle”
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I'm a healthy weight for my height, and I like how I look on most days.
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They really need to know much more about where the food comes from - how to grow it and cook it, how to make consumer choices that are good for the environment and the local economy.
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You know, it takes something different once in a while to get somebody out.
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I'm interested in directing, but it's a real headache. Directing can be a real pain in the ass, because you not only have to worry about yourself, but all these other people coming to you with their problems. I like just worrying about myself.
