Ray Stevens Quotes

I'm basically a keyboard player, so if it's got a keyboard on it, I'll give it a shot. I played a lot of organ in the early days. I can make a few chords on guitar, but that's about it.

Ray Stevens

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I've been watching 'American Idol' since I was five years old.

Jessica Sanchez

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I have a call to speak, to write, to do sort of deep-heart surgery in people's lives.

John Eldredge

PeopleSpeakWriteCallSurgery

Like ministers of information, consultants condense the message, smooth out the dissonances, unify the rhetoric, and then repeat and amplify it ad nauseam through the client's rank and file.

Matthew Stewart

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Someone told me there was a publisher that could find a good home for my songs, but I didn't want to give up my pursuit of a career in the business as an artist.

Michael Bolton

GoodHomeBusinessMeSomeoneFind

If you cannot have fun on a set and enjoy what you're doing, you're better off giving it up.

John Rhys-Davies

FunHave FunBetterGivingDoingUp

I just feel lucky to have grown up where I did because I think it gave me a nice base. Hollywood can really mess with your sense of self and I feel like coming from the South keeps me pretty grounded.

Amber Benson

MeThinkSelfFeelNiceHollywood

Whether or not we believe in survival of consciousness after death, reincarnation, and karma, it has very serious implications for our behavior.

Stanislav Grof

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When Chynna was born, the first thing I said when they placed her in my arms was, 'I'm going to have so much fun with this little girl.' And I have. I've tried to guide her, make her life happy, and just let her prepare for life.

Michelle Phillips

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Before, being a model, it was just a job, and I was making fun of it. But today, I take my career more seriously. The fact that a reader may buy an Armani item because she'd seen it on me in a magazine is very important to me. So much so that I intend to launch my own label.

Milla Jovovich

TodayJobFunMeCareerSeriously

I'm not at all competitive. I'd rather play Solitaire than ping-pong.

Johnny Galecki

PlayCompetitiveRatherThan

My father made about $25 a week. We always lived just on the edge.

Dick Van Dyke

FatherWeekEdgeAlwaysLivedJust

I work at the sentences. Many of the things people find distinctive about my writing, I think of as natural.

Anne Enright

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