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 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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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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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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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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The '90s was a decade of mundane market-consumer nothingness where there was nothing coming up from the streets; you just had someone in an office deciding what was cool.
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When I walked out on the mound, I felt enclosed. You see, I'd been used to playing on pastures, where when somebody hit a ball you had to stop it from rolling. Well, this field had fences around it.
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If you know how to make software, then you can create big things.
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Oftentimes, when you have a huge studio film and you have big names attached, they like to keep attaching big names.
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A lot of the films I've made probably could have worked just as well 50 years ago, and that's just because I have a lot of old-fashion values.
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After my first 'Sports Illustrated' cover, I felt terrible about myself for a solid month. People deal with models like they are children. They think they can pull one over on you. I'm not a toy; I'm a human. I'm not here to be used.
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Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature.
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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.
