Charles Francis Richter Quotes
Don't wait for extraordinary circumstance to do good; try to use ordinary situations.
Quotes to Explore
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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My parents were self-made people, and they were a team.
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I miss having my mom and close friends around. Thank God for Skype and Face-Time, which keep me connected... but interacting digitally can't come close to the feeling of being hugged by my mom or getting together for a meal with my friends on the same table.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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There's a lot about the character. It doesn't always happen, but there are some characters you really create a relationship with, almost as if they were your friend. And you never get into their heads again or think like them.
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I'm a journalist and author. I make my living by finding things out and writing about them.
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Peoples do not defy repression and death, nor do they remain for nights on end protesting energetically, just because of merely formal matters.
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If you're not kind, then you won't be attractive to me personally because that spirit shines through and makes people attractive.
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Twenty-six years ago, I became the first Democratic woman elected to the Senate in her own right. I was the first, but I made sure I wasn't the only.
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Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things; the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours.
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When the British became Christian, Christianity in no way altered their political organisation.
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The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.
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By no means do I want to try to leave country music. That's absolutely where I want to stay.
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I'm not a professional politician, I'm a problem solver.
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So I'm truly an actor who sings, and not a singer who acts.
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I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor. I just really, really amused myself and my friends with memorizing entire George Carlin or Steve Martin albums.
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More and more, we're used to taking things in through the eyes rather than through the ears, and opera is more of a spectacle.
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And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.
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More women should actively participate in space flight. There are many well educated women working in the space industry; they are very good candidates.
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We live in a world in which we're seeing an increasing gap between the haves and the have-nots.
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I don't necessarily like being defined by my profession.
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The process of spotting fear and refusing to obey it is the source of all true empowerment.
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A few small changes in your DNA can turn your eyes blue, make you lactose intolerant or put some curl in your hair.
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Don't wait for extraordinary circumstance to do good; try to use ordinary situations.
