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ROSS PEROT People are roasting each other at parties, at work events, around the fire. It's so fun. People ... JEFF ROSS I believe, I believe every day is a good day when you paint. BOB ROSS War has rules, mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules. ROSS PEROT There are not many people on Team Gary. Actually, it's two people. My kids. GARY ROSS The dynamic range of a digital camera is not that much greater than film, particularly if you push t... GARY ROSS My '50s were different than other people's '50s. The myth didn't permeate our world,... GARY ROSS The great seats of power tend to be wide and open, not vertical and soaring. Red Square, Tiananmen S... GARY ROSS I love 'Chaplin'; I mean I really love 'Chaplin.' I just think there's a grace a... GARY ROSS Despite recent speculation in the media, and after difficult but sincere consideration, I have decid... GARY ROSS In a complex and troubling world, who wouldn't want to simplify? Everybody does. Everybody wants... GARY ROSS There's something so wonderful about writing in rhyme where it isn't just the meaning of the... GARY ROSS Family entertainment is really very necessary in our culture. Look how profitable they are. It's... GARY ROSS I mean, in 'Big' and 'Pleasantville,' it's a journey that the characters go on w... GARY ROSS Ultimately, so much Dr. Seuss is about empowerment. He invites us to disappear into our imagination ... GARY ROSS Really, each era has its own false nostalgia. We all put a picket fence up around something. For my ... GARY ROSS 'Harry Potter' created a generation of readers in an era when kids could have disappeared in... GARY ROSS I don't understand people who dream in black and white. I just don't get it. My dreams have ... GARY ROSS Why is every great children's story about a journey? Maybe that's because we are always on o... GARY ROSS We writers, as we work our way deeper into our craft, learn to drop more and more personal clues. Li... ROSS MACDONALD I usually try to stay off my phone and enjoy the world, but when I am on my phone, it's always f... ROSS LYNCH All we had aboard the ship that morning was one Annapolis graduate and three reserves. BARNEY ROSS Destroyers did not have chaplains because they were too small. BARNEY ROSS I was 20 years old at Pearl Harbor. I was in the Navy about a year and four months before the war. BARNEY ROSS It was lucky for me. It wasn't lucky for the nine people that got killed and the 20 that were in... BARNEY ROSS They got word that the Japanese planes were coming back, so we sunk her ourselves so the Japanese wo... BARNEY ROSS We got orders to strike the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. We had a task force with the Enterprise. W... BARNEY ROSS Everything was black in the harbor, but there were still some fires burning on the ships. BARNEY ROSS I had been out there long enough. I had not seen my family for four years. BARNEY ROSS I'd get a shell, they weighed about 80 pounds I think, but when I was 19 or 20 that was nothing.... BARNEY ROSS Our duty was to try and find the Japanese fleet. We never did find the Japanese fleet and I am awful... BARNEY ROSS We managed to get underway, and I don't know to this day why we didn't get struck or take a ... BARNEY ROSS We were very fortunate that the carriers weren't in the harbor. BARNEY ROSS After the atomic bombs were dropped, the war ended and we went into Tokyo Bay with the rest of the f... BARNEY ROSS I was standing on the deck of the USS Blue, a destroyer. We were all alone out there at this buoy, t... BARNEY ROSS You can't buy something which does not exist. In a way, let's make things exist and then jud... ROSS LOVEGROVE