Chuck Ragan Quotes

I find a ton of inspiration from the artists that I'm writing with, that I'm playing shows with, and that I'm sitting down and having coffee with.

Chuck Ragan

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• Unworthiness is the inmost frightening thought that you do not belong, no matter how much you want to belong, that you are an outsider and will always be an outsider. It is the idea that you are flawed and cannot be fixed. It is wanting to be loved and feeling unlovable, or wanting to love and feeling that you are not capable of loving.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Love
  • Feeling
  • Idea

• I guess I'd love to be surprised by something I had never thought of.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Thought
  • Surprised
  • Guess

• It's funny, I used to say on 'That 70's Show', you could really put us in any decade, and it was about the people and the characters and that we cared about each other.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • People
  • You
  • Funny

• I have always believed that life is too short for rows and disagreements. Even if I think I'm right, I would prefer to apologize and remain friends rather than win and be an enemy.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Life
  • Friends
  • Enemy

• Lupe Fiasco is kinda cool. I like him a lot.

  

  Yuna
  • Cool
  • Like
  • Him

• It's been said that the men in my books have been absent, or weak, or creepy.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Men
  • Said
  • Creepy

• Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Experience
  • Peace
  • Quiet

• Though I'm not religious in the classical sense I did partake in Passover.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • Religious
  • Sense
  • Did

• However great the exertion of our mind may be to comprehend the Divine Being or any of the ideals, we find a screen and partition between Him and ourselves. Thus the prophets frequently hint at the existence of a partition between God and us.

  

  Maimonides
  • Great
  • God
  • Mind

• Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Important
  • Book
  • Earth

• On the set I never know what day of the week it is.

  

  Taye Diggs
  • Know
  • Day
  • Week

• I'm very much a Christian in ideals and ethics, especially in terms of belief in fairness, a deep set obligation to others, and the virtues of charity, tolerance and generosity that we associate with traditional Christian teaching.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Christian
  • Deep
  • Charity

• No doubt we have to have bigger projects, bigger industries, basic industries, but it is a matter of the highest importance that we look to the common man, the weakest element in the society.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • Society
  • Man
  • Doubt

• I love fishing and surfing, and I work out every day.

  

  Karl Urban
  • Work
  • Love
  • Day

• I can say without hesitation that there is certainly no greater show to be a contestant on than 'Price' - the prizes can be huge, and the whole world loves and watches the show. It's an American institution!

  

  Randy West
  • World
  • American
  • Watches

• I don't think we're wasting people in space.

  

  Majel Barrett
  • People
  • Think
  • Space

• When I said, 'I feel like everything I tried to do is there', it is less because of what I did than it is a case of Michael keeping his word. Sometimes he'd launch into a discourse, a convoluted discourse about something or other, and I had no idea what he was saying. I'd tease him about it, 'What on earth are you talking about?'

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Earth

• It's the time of year when the literati give advice on what we should be reading on our summer holidays. These terrifying lists often leave me appalled at my own ignorance, but also suspicious about the pretension of their advocates.

  

  Arthur Smith
  • Time
  • Reading
  • Advice

• I'm getting money over here. I'm good, I'm young, I'm finally in a position to feed my family; please don't take that away from me.

  

  Daystar Peterson
  • Good
  • Family
  • Money

• Eventually the man comes to see that he has a mind, and that his mind is like a fist, wrapped tightly around a single thought. He cannot open the fist to look at the thought, for fear that it will fly away, but he knows that it is very important and that he must hang on to it, no matter what the cost.

  

  Ben Loory
  • Men
  • Important
  • Mind

• Christmas Day itself hasn't always been great. My parents went abroad when I was very young, and I went to boarding school. We had a few Christmases before that - I remember a big sack of presents and Mummy cooking goose.

  

  Anne Reid
  • Great
  • School
  • Remember

• Hearing often-times the still, sad music of humanity, nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power to chasten and subdue.

  

  William Wordsworth
  • Humanity
  • Hearing
  • Harsh

• For years, we have underestimated the challenges of mass immigration.

  

  Mette Frederiksen
  • Challenges
  • Immigration
  • Underestimated

• I find a ton of inspiration from the artists that I'm writing with, that I'm playing shows with, and that I'm sitting down and having coffee with.

  

  Chuck Ragan
  • Inspiration
  • Shows
  • Artists