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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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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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 found 'Celebrity Gangster' intense, dramatic, a real page turner.
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Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow.
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The collective experience of watching a great film together in a room is a transcendent moment that will never die.
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There's a child within me. Everything is fascinating. The hunger to learn, do better and more creative things never goes.
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Other sound than the owl's voice there was none, save the falling of a fountain into its stone basin; for, it was one of those dark nights that hold their breath by the hour together, and then heave a long low sigh, and hold their breath again.
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Teachers of design should help a student to find their own voice. In other words, not be a templated version of the teacher, but rather to help them the students unfold what they already know and can bring to the table.
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I write novels, mostly historical ones, and I try hard to keep them accurate as to historical facts, milieu and flavor.
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No Republican questions or disputes civil rights. I have never wavered in my support for civil rights or the civil rights act.
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Be creative. Use your voice, your community.
