Ray Stevens Quotes

People will remember a good comedy song a lot longer than they would some of the so-called straight love songs.

Ray Stevens

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'Secretariat' was such a magnificent animal, unbelievably beautiful and powerful. It's always nice to see something that close to perfection, a reason to celebrate.

John Malkovich

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What scares me about drone strikes is how they are perceived around the world. The resentment created by American use of unmanned strikes... is much greater than the average American appreciates. They are hated on a visceral level, even by people who've never seen one or seen the effects of one.

Stanley A. McChrystal

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One of my favourite things to do is compete for a crowd. It's just really fun for me.

Simone Biles

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I really only have a few friends.

Milla Jovovich

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I'm very conscious that I'm in the minority in that I love what I do. How big is the number of people who are running to work to do a job that they like? And how lucky to be employed at it - how incredibly lucky.

Judi Dench

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The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers.

Judy Blume

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Because the task of a political leader is to do what he believes is better for his country. Sometimes the public opinion is in favor; sometimes the public opinion needs a little bit more time to understand things.

Jose Maria Aznar

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I'm pretty much a 9-to-5 kind of guy. I usually get to work about 8 in the morning, and I work until 4 or 5, and sometimes I work on Saturday and Sunday mornings. Pretty much I keep the same hours as an accountant or clerk or whatever.

Douglas Preston

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The world and that which, by another name, men have thought good to call Heaven (under the compass of which all things are covered), we ought to believe, in all reason, to be a divine power, eternal, immense, without beginning, and never to perish.

Pliny the Elder

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Pigs are not that dirty. And they're smart, strange little creatures. They just need love.

Shelley Duvall

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The art of reading between the lines is as old as manipulated information.

Serge Schmemann

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The more harder you work, the less you're out spending your money.

Schoolboy Q

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