Raymond Bonner Quotes
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Our parents all experimented with raising us in a fairly loose, unorthodox way. A huge emphasis was placed on creativity, and our artistic efforts were never dismissed as childish. There was a sense that we - kids and grown-ups - all had the potential to make something of value. Our drawings were not simply destined for the refrigerator.
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Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.
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I just find that there's something about looking back on interviews, whether for purposes of remembering what I said about something or if it's for posterity when I'm 75.
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I was kind of a wild child. I wasn't taught the niceties of life.
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I open the doors for everybody all the time.
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Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.
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The federal government has not been effective enough monitoring and surveilling bad guys.
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No money on earth can buy the love and affection that has been given to me by a grateful nation.
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When I first started, I just wanted to work. I wouldn't necessarily do anything, but I'd pretty much almost do anything at the very beginning.
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Almost all people have this potential for evil, which would be unleashed only under certain dangerous social circumstances.
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My mother is going to get earrings of my head. Some will be dipped in silver, some will be dipped in gold, and I will hand them out to everyone I know.
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Happy birthday,” she said. “And next time? Eat the stupid cupcake.
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They almost ran me off the road several times. There are so many chances that they take to get the right photo.
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You can read a dozen different textbooks or how-to manuals that will tell you the basic rules of what makes a story - a beginning, a middle, and an end.
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Art is a delivery system for worldviews.
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The fire inside people is like a match; the way to ignite that flame is initially through friction, then other matches are lit through warmth.
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I really, really love Daniel Craig as Bond.
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You think that the heads of state only have serious conversations, but they actually often begin really with the weather or, 'I really like your tie.'
