Chuck Ragan Quotes
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So most astronauts getting ready to lift off are excited and very anxious and worried about that explosion - because if something goes wrong in the first seconds of launch, there's not very much you can do.
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If you have a camera in the courtroom, there's no filtering. What you see is what's there.
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If you have a happy home, everything is sorted, I guess.
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The man does not beat your head because you got a Cadillac or because you got a Ford; he beats you because you're black!
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Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
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When you write as a woman, there's this feeling there's going to be a softness.
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You'd be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea.
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How can you have an educated workforce, how do you equal the economic disparities in this country, if you can't make college more affordable for those who are struggling to make it?
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In fact, you couldn't give me anything to make me go back to being a teenager. Never. No, I hated it.
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Well, you can't argue with somebody that won't argue back.
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That's the great thing about entering a convent: There are things that you simply can't do, so you don't have to worry about them.
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No one teaches you how to be a famous person; no one teaches you how to be a role model. It's something you have to do on your own.
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I mean, like, I can go in a room and say, look, 'Watchmen' should be at least 15 minutes longer than 'Batman.' I mean, that's, like, any geek will tell you that.
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When in doubt, you bring in relatives. Nepotism is a part of my work.
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You can't reorder any society from outside. You can help from within.
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Slowly but surely, I went through different phases of fame, and each rises you further into isolation and alienation.
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Reality is what you can count on.
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Well, actually, I manage a couple of stock portfolios or funds or whatever you want to call 'em, and I think I've done relatively well with them.
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When a city says, 'If you're illegal, come here, we're not going to prosecute you,' the federal law should supersede the local mayor's edict.
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I love nature - it's probably my most favorite thing. I don't watch much telly, the telly hardly goes on, but the things I do watch are sort of nature programs, and something about the oceans and the amount of weird fish that's in there.
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Hip-hop is really standoffish. It's really competitive and it's really about who's number one all the time. Sometimes it gets out of hand.
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Without the element of enjoyment, it is not worth trying to excel at anything.
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There are 36 ways to tell this story. And all of them are disgusting.
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You're always kind of shifting and changing and it's a really exciting process.
