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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The ancient Greeks have a knack of wrapping truths in myths.
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People often try to disguise televisions. I always think that makes it worse. It is what it is!
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Before we kill Schengen, we have to make Dublin work.
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I am afraid that people will think I re-illustrated 'The Little Prince,' when really, it was more a tribute to him as a dedicated pilot and a man who believed in the goodness of people.
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How is it possible to live in world where people can rule millions of others? It's incredible! It's like we've gone back to the 12th century. That's what happens when you decapitate intelligentsia and repeatedly traumatize and brutalize a country for decades on end: you do not get virtue. Victims do not make nice people.
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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.
