Ray Charles Quotes
Affluence separates people. Poverty knits 'em together. You got some sugar and I don't; I borrow some of yours. Next month you might not have any flour; well, I'll give you some of mine. That's how my band made it. We swam through a lot of shit together, we swallowed a lot of pride, but we managed to do what we needed to do.
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Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.
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The next phase of the journey is to move from speculation to actual use cases - people getting into Bitcoin because they want to use it.
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On the night of the winter solstice, when the dead get their annual reprieve, they go up to the 24-hour donut shop and wedding chapel to get hitched. Marriage is a good and proper pursuit for dead people. For a while, it relieves the dark, shuddering loneliness of the afterlife.
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Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.
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The most fascinating person is always the one of the most winning manners; not the one of greatest physical beauty.
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I received a D.Sc. from the University of London in 1992.
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We have to change the kind of free trade deals we sign. We would have to change the absolutely central role of frenetic consumption in our culture. We would have to change the role of money in politics and our political system.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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I went to a military school between the ages of six and 12 and later into the air force. You learn discipline and strength of character.
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I think the first step is to understand that forgiveness does not exonerate the perpetrator. Forgiveness liberates the victim. It's a gift you give yourself.
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I did try fillers once. Don't ever have fillers because when your cheekbones are high, it's chipmunk time.
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Sport can bring communities together and can release a lot of pent-up emotions.
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I have to admit that I can't take a whole fig and eat it on its own as I would a peach or mango. It's just too much.
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One of the few benefits of being a journalist is that you're not in the Army.
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I find Shakespeare terrifying. When Simon Russell Beale does a speech, I understand every word of it, but if I did the same speech, people would be going, 'Huh? What?'
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I like the challenge of creating a world with only sentences.
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A person who suffers from severe locomotor anxiety finds himself in an almost permanent state of mental tension. He wakes in the morning with the anxious expectation of having to go out somewhere in the course of the day.
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You've got to perform in a role hundreds of times. In keeping it fresh one can become a large, madly humming, demented refrigerator.
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I love to listen to people talk, especially when they're being really honest and they're not trying to sound any particular way.
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Nowadays, saying what you really think can be a serious error since one risks being misunderstood.
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The whole point of all of this - why we are here, why the world is here, and why we have the political system and leaders that we do - is to achieve change. This is the purpose of life.
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I had no specific bent towards science until my grandfather, who died - that summer - of stomach cancer. ... I decided that nobody should suffer that much.
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The essence of comedy, drama, and horror is surprise. I have an uncanny ability to surprise people because they look at my face, and they don't know where I'm going.
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Affluence separates people. Poverty knits 'em together. You got some sugar and I don't; I borrow some of yours. Next month you might not have any flour; well, I'll give you some of mine. That's how my band made it. We swam through a lot of shit together, we swallowed a lot of pride, but we managed to do what we needed to do.
