Ray Toro Quotes
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In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.
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Among my generation, there was a purist position that any contact with electoral politics was an unforgiveable compromise.
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As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing.
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In my experience an appreciative letter from a fellow writer means a lot.
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When the dog looks at you, the dog is not thinking what kind of a person you are. The dog is not judging you.
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I connect with kids easily. They bring out the maternal side in me.
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Maybe we adults idealize our own red-rover days, the hot afternoons spent playing games that required no coaches, eating foods that involved no nutrition, getting dirty in whole new ways and rarely glancing in the direction of a screen of any kind.
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We must be our own before we can be another's.
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I watched the first moon landing at a bar in Paducah, Kentucky, a fact worth mentioning only because I still remember how suddenly silence descended on this raucous place when Neil Armstrong started coming down that ladder.
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In the film, I'm not very mobile, like in the space suit.
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It's a war zone. Terrible things happen.
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What is enthusiasm but a passionate belief in what seems to be a high and holy aim - an unselfish devotion to some noble cause - a consecration of heart and mind and soul to the attainment of a great object?
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Youth is really in your attitude, not in what you look like.
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Ask the right questions if you're to find the right answers.
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Brands will increasingly handle their own e-commerce and rely less and less on local distribution partners. Why should they give away their profit margins?
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It's amazing to me that Glenn Beck can be on the cover of 'Time,' and there can be a whole article about him basically saying, 'Well, you know, he's controversial.' It's like, 'No, he's a dangerous idiot who needs the help of a good psychiatrist!'
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Generally, if I read something that I think is really good and that I feel a connection with and is right for me, I see and hear who the guy is, as manifested by me.
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I was quite happy with the way I went, I think.
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I had a friend who got pregnant at age 14 and wasn't quite sure who the father was. Her paternity test went a little something like this: “If it comes out black, its Darwin's and if it comes out white its Ray's.” This is how things were done in the trailer park.
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There is a type of writer that can happily bury themselves in the country and dig very deep, but I'm not like that.
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I don't think people are ever going to a place where they're like, 'I'm over stories about character and love.'
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I have found it is surprisingly difficult to remain sad when a cat is doing its level best to sandpaper one's cheeks.
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Be creative. Use your voice, your community.
