"Well I don't think I've scored my life exclusively to Ray Charles."

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Source : Interview with Spence D., www.ign.com. October 24, 2004.

Taylor Hackford

#Thinking Quotes #Rays Quotes #Wells Quotes

“All forgiveness is self forgiveness.”
“We are speeding up our lives and working harder in a futile attempt to buy the time to slow down and enjoy it.”
“As a matter of fact we have to take special precautions during a battle to post police, to prevent more unwounded men than are necessary from accompanying a wounded man back from the firing line.”
“If you asked twenty good men to-day what they thought the highest of the virtues, nineteen of them would reply, Unselfishness. But if you asked almost any of the great Christians of old he would have replied, Love - You see what has happened? A negative term has been substituted for a positive, and this is of more than philological importance. The negative ideal of Unselfishness carries with it the suggestion not primarily of securing good things for others, but of going without them ourselves, as if our abstinence and not their happiness was the important point.”
“The chakras are very intelligent â€“ they are like the software of the whole computer body.”
“When you look at where the real problems are among minorities in our society, particularly blacks, it's at the bottom. It's the people who are in school systems that don't educate, neighborhoods where there is a lot of crime, drugs, the whole bit.”
“(For songwriters) Development of your facility as a musician is also important.”
“He never wants anything but what's right and fair; only when you come to settle what's right and fair, it's everything that he wants and nothing that you want. And that's his idea of a compromise.”

Source : 'Tom Brown's Schooldays' (1857) pt. 2, ch. 2

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