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Charles Ray Quotes

I wasn't the class nerd, but I was weird. I could tell long stories and be funny, but I couldn't do sports. And I was always terrified of being held back.

Charles Ray

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: artist
Nationality: american
Birth: 1953

Topics

Funny Sports Weird Long Back Class

I came from a family in Texas who simply never spoke about money.

Jim Parsons

Family Money Texas Never Who Simply

I'm not a prude.

Jennifer Coolidge

Prude

Coming from Ireland, it's quite hard to do a startup because you're culturally so far away from what everyone else is doing. In the Bay Area, it's much easier. It's the equivalent of an actor or actress moving to Hollywood.

John Collison

Moving Doing You Far Away Hollywood

When a French book becomes an international hit it is because of the author and not because of the language. The same goes for movies.

Jean-Jacques Annaud

Book Language Movies Same Because

Reshoots are par for the course on any film. For me, I kind of love it because, as an actor, you always feel that there was a way you could have done it differently. Being able to go back and do some stuff again is always a blessing in my eyes.

Riz Ahmed

Love Eyes Blessing Me Feel You

Investigating some of the largest subprime lenders - Wells Fargo, Countrywide, Ameriquest, Household Finance - I've seen how their terrible, toxic loans were closed by any means necessary and eventually packaged, sold as securities, and bet upon until they exploded and decimated our economy.

Lisa Madigan

Finance Toxic Economy Seen Terrible

Well, to aspiring writers, I would tell them that we live in a wonderful time where you're able to make your work visible, easily.

Diablo Cody

Work Live Time You Tell Wonderful

Honestly, I don't believe in luck.

Doug Baldwin

Luck Believe Honestly

Growing up, my dad and my mom were there for my sister and I.

Courtney B. Vance

Mom Sister Growing Up Growing Up

When you're an engineer, you want to analyze things a lot. But if you believe that the most important data points are people, then you have to make conclusions in relatively short order. Because you want to push the people who are doing great. And you want to either develop the people who are not or, in a worst case, they need to be somewhere else.

Tim Cook

Great People Believe Short Push You

I've grown up on Bob Dylan and all that, but there was a certain standard set up by people before 1955.

Leon Russell

People Up Set Bob Dylan Before Bob

I never want to pick an easy song. I want to continue to challenge myself vocally.

Hollie Cavanagh

Myself Challenge Song Easy Want