Ray Charles Quotes
Do it right or don't do it at all. That comes from my mom. If there's something I want to do, I'm one of those people that won't be satisfied until I get it done. If I'm trying to sing something and I can't get it, I'm going to keep at it until I get where I want it.
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I realized pretty soon that I have to do more than just play bass in the background way. So, I developed a kind of playing which only a handful of musicians accepted.
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I have learned to be patient.
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Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse.
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I like the term 'misunderstood.' But I am a bit of a bad boy.
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During this time I had the singular good fortune of being able to discuss the problem constantly with Einstein. Some experiments done at Einstein's suggestion yielded no decisively new result.
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If I just did music, I might go insane. I need words; I need stories. And it's the same the other way around.
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I hear odd tracks from my albums every now and again on the radio, or maybe a friend plays me something.
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I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.
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As I grew up in that world and saw how much it affected her world and how much it affected our childhood, it made me very aware of politics. Of course, I have my own private feelings and thoughts, but I don't care to share them.
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We use the same possessive pronouns for everything, but do we own our lives or sisters or husbands in the same way we own our shoes? Do we own any of them at all?
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I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.
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Honestly, I'd love to say I live this amazing Hollywood lifestyle, but actually, I'm at home with my same friends and cooking. I crochet, I do watercolor. I think what surprised me the most is that that isn't the lifestyle everyone necessarily lives.
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None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
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I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!
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I'm not a babysitter.
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No one's gonna give a damn in July if you lost a game in March.
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No matter where you are on the political spectrum, libraries make sense. It's such a small investment. Every dollar supporting a library system returns five dollars to the community.
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Fear is not a friend of mine. But it's something to have a healthy awareness of.
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Most people treat the news media like the exercise bike they have in their basement. They're glad it's there but they never use it.
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Downtown, one has less time. But there are in Europe much people who have the faith, in South America, too.
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I want my kids to have a good work ethic. I believe you can achieve anything if you work hard enough to get it.
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If there is one constant to my life, it is that you cannot tell me 'no.'
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When I was making 'Strong Island,' it was very clear to me that my brother's death was a point on a line that stretched back into the 1940s and beyond in my family - and in the nation.
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Do it right or don't do it at all. That comes from my mom. If there's something I want to do, I'm one of those people that won't be satisfied until I get it done. If I'm trying to sing something and I can't get it, I'm going to keep at it until I get where I want it.
