Ray Toro Quotes
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In 1949 - my father stayed on in Shanghai after the war. But in 1949, the Communists took over the whole of China, and in fact, my father was caught by the Communists in Shanghai. And he was there for about a year until he was finally able to get out.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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You can blow on the dice all you want, but whether they come up 'seven' is still a function of random luck.
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Syria is important because it lies at the heart of a region critical to U.S. security, a region that is home to friends and partners and one of our closest allies. It is important because the Syrian regime possesses stores of chemical weapons that they have recently used on a large scale and that we cannot allow to fall into terrorists' hands.
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Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.
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The loving parts of your personality have no trouble loving. That is all they do. You experience the loving parts of as gratitude, appreciation, caring, patience, contentment and awe of life.
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I grew up on a wide range of stuff. OutKast, they been around for over 20 years, and some of the L.A. cats like Defari, Dilated Peoples and Likwit Crew. I was always going to these shows and catching the KRS-One tennis ball, as he would throw those out, EPMD. I could go on and on.
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Doing Broadway was always a dream of mine since I was a little girl.
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My story is so boring: Long Island Jewish parents take their daughters to Broadway.
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We want to engage in ever closer synergy with Latin American and Caribbean partners.
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I came from an environment where I needed to succeed. There was no wealth or anything like that in the family. Not that we were paupers, but we had to fend for ourselves. Kids today are not as hungry as I was. They don’t understand how tough my generation was.
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Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'
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I made my living in comedy, but I'm not a silly person. I've got all these sides to me. Even in my movies that I've written myself, the characters sometimes border on great anger or nutsiness or other kinds of behavior. I'm not just doing fart jokes for two hours.
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Its smallness is not petty; on the contrary, it is profound.
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Our relationship to reality and to our experience is all based upon the ideas in our mind that we're always trying to live up to.
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Drama asks some uncomfortable questions at times... It goes to pretty dark places.
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I was hugely relieved to discover there was a purpose for girls with loud voices.
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I started playing guitar at, like, 12 or 13 and just rock bands mostly. I had a punk rock band and hard core bands and all that.
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The thing I find frustrating about rock music is, how different can you make an acoustic drum kit sound, an electric guitar and vocals?
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If I could do theater during the hiatus and then do '30 Rock' in the winter, that would be my ideal job.
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Rock music is electronic music, dependent entirely on electronic circuitry and amplification.
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It's what I do. I don't deserve any awards for this, it's just music. It's just writing songs. You sit down, you write a song, you record it. You tour and play the songs live, dress them up a bit differently, or dress them down.
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Rock music is becoming stale. Let's put the fun back.
