Ray Stevens Quotes

As you know, I played a little trumpet with Elvis. I overdub a few drum licks here and there on a session, but I'm not a drummer by any means.

Ray Stevens

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YouKnowDrummerDrumLittleHere

If I get the chance to be philanthropic, I want to help kids and teachers.

Jesse L. Martin

ChanceHelpWantTeachersGetKids

You can research until you're falling asleep, but that still doesn't mean you're really fluent in the material.

Jennifer Egan

ResearchYouMeanFallingStill

I think that when we're looking at things when we're right in the center of things, as opposed to being a bit unmoored from what's going on around us, we see things through a kind of dulling lens of convention, and there's something about extreme emotional experiences that gives us a heightened clarity, I think, of thought and of feeling.

Jenny Offill

LookingThinkThoughtClarityLens

I don't consider ideas for apps all that valuable. It's the implementation of an idea that matters.

John Gruber

IdeasMattersImplementationIdea

We need... to say to people that this is a temporary residential status, and we expect that, once there is peace in Syria again, once IS has been defeated in Iraq, that you go back to your home country with the knowledge that you have gained.

Angela Merkel

HomeKnowledgePeacePeopleYouGo

It will never be Hollywood, the same way people think it should be. I think it will grow and it will be healthy and it will expand into more than one production house.

Ann Macbeth

PeopleThinkGrowHouseHealthyWay

When I go and teach, it sort of opens me up in some way. And when you're open, you're more receptive.

Stephen Frears

MeYouGoTeachWayMore

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

Socrates

DeathBlessingsHumanGreatestMay

I think I'm most proud of the fact that I have figured out how to exist as both a creative person and artist, and a businesswoman and manager. Because those two things do not go together.

Shonda Rhimes

TogetherCreativeProudThinkArtist

For me, if its television, if it's theater, if it's film, and it's good, I don't make much of distinction between the 3. I think there's only so many great stories out there. If you get the chance to be a part of one, it doesn't matter what it is.

Tom Cavanagh

GoodGreatMeChanceThinkYou

A perfect day for me would just be a day that goes the way I plan.

Mikaela Shiffrin

DayMePlanPerfectWayJust

I'm that person who says, 'No matter what the problem is, there's a solution.' That's the way my brain is wired. If someone says to me, 'Well, that's not possible. It can't happen,' I say, 'Yes it is. I'm going to sit here and show you that it can.'

Miranda Kerr

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