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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I think, in all this race and competition, we actors forget how to have fun.
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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'm just not a religious person, not at all. I consider myself a spiritual person. I was always very drawn to Buddhism, Hinduism. I still meditate.
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Daniel Ek, the C.E.O. of Spotify, is a rock star of the tech world, but he is not long on charisma.
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I think that anyone who promotes in a group starts at some point to think about what they are going to do after their group disbands. When I started thinking about that myself, I thought back to my reason for becoming a singer.
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Whether it's music, loss of something, loneliness or friendship - if that emotion is heightened in some way and painted to fit in between the covers of 32 pages, that can become a picture book.
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Rock music is becoming stale. Let's put the fun back.
