Lee R. Raymond Quotes
The market system requires that people be committed and willing to work hard. Inherent with that is what I call a merit system, which I think gives people the greatest opportunity.
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People assume when my hair is long that I am a lot cooler than I actually am. I am not opposed to this misconception, by the way, but it is a misconception.
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When civilization takes a nose dive, how can you look away? You've got to be there. You've got to be at the bottom of the swimming pool taking notes.
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We're all basically made of the same stuff: generosity and selfishness, goodness and greed.
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What is feminism? Simply the belief that women should be as free as men, however nuts, dim, deluded, badly dressed, fat, receding, lazy, and smug they might be.
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During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always work.
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I always loved all kinds of music. I would watch musicals a lot as a kid, on TV, watch the Fred Astaire movies. I'd watch 'The Wizard of Oz.' I was a big Jerry Lewis fan, and they'd have these big bands and someone singing - some siren, or some guy singing some gorgeous song. I was always enamored of that style of music.
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We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
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My work has always been the thing that justifies my life.
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I've got a condo in Miami, but I don't live in it.
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You can say whatever you want about me, I'm not really bothered. But when it starts to upset people I care about or I hear about it from my mum, then that's a problem.
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Playing hard to get is not the way to win me over. I'm definitely more for the girl who can smile and laugh all the time and just have a good time!
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Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They're not skilled. They're looking for shock value.
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I definitely want to be an inspiration or a role model for all the little girls out there or anyone out there that wants to break stereotypes. I feel like I'm breaking stereotypes with what I'm doing. I'm not the typical fighter, and there's a lot of people out there that won't do something just because they don't fit the stereotype.
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I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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It is well known that Turkey has more imprisoned journalists than any other country, but as a result of the chilling effect of these prosecutions on the press, many stories never make the news.
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Work faithfully, and you will put yourself in possession of a glorious and enlarging happiness.
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By the time I was ten, everyone knew I wanted to be a producer. I was a very precocious little boy.
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I used to carry about with me a German map-case filled with poems.
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The joy of Christmas causes hundreds of radio stations around the country to play Christmas music all day, and people will exchange millions of gifts to remember the first gift of Christmas, the infant Jesus.
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In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
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The actors in 'Eight Men Out' really know how to play, and the background athletes are all professionals.
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And when the time is right, I hope that African Americans will again look to the party of emancipation, civil liberty, and individual freedom.
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The market system requires that people be committed and willing to work hard. Inherent with that is what I call a merit system, which I think gives people the greatest opportunity.
