Jef I. Richards Quotes
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Speaking of trust, ever since I wrote this book, 'Liespotting,' no one wants to meet me in person anymore - no, no, no, no, no. They say, 'It's okay. We'll email you.' I can't even get a coffee date at Starbucks. My husband's like, 'Honey, deception? Maybe you could have focused on cooking. How about French cooking?'
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What we need to do is break the financial community's grip on society.
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You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.
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We have peace with Israel. We're actually the last man standing. So there is going to be immense pressure and people asking, 'Why are we having this relationship when it's not benefiting anybody?' Obviously, my answer is you always benefit from peace.
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Fitness is important, but the most important thing is how you adapt and the way you feel physically. To adapt to a new position. To try to change your game.
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I hope everybody thinks they've got the best album. I wouldn't have put mine out if I didn't think it was the best.
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I like to get physical on defense. I like to get up on a guy as much as possible. I actually need to calm down, though.
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That which comes and goes, rises and sets, is born and dies is the ego. That which always abides, never changes, and is devoid of qualities is the Self.
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You just can't help but sort of think that your life and your career are going to go straight up, up, up.
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I want to make it to Heaven and be as good an influence on others as I can in that process.
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Directing her was like directing Lassie. You need 14 takes to get each one of them right.
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It's a big, big advantage because understanding what changes we might make takes time and it takes time to work out settings and to understand everything about the new machine.
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The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
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When I go out on the ice, I just think about my skating. I forget it is a competition.
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No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.
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A work, however, should be judged by its design and its execution, and not by any preconceived notion of what it ought to be according to the critic, rather than the author.
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'If your actions are motivated by selfish interests rather than God, you are mortgaging tomorrow's joy.'
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The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the shade,For talking age and whispering lovers made.
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Well I don't feel sectarian against sparseness, although I sometimes get a little chippy about this. I resent the way that a certain notion of parsimony has become the norm for skilful literary writing.
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To forgive is not to forget. The merit lies in loving in spite of the vivid knowledge that one that must be loved is not a friend. There is not merit in loving an enemy when you forget him for a friend.
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Video store arguments really bother me. Let's say it's a slow night on campus so you decide to stay in and rent a movie. You're in the video store and finally pick one out and your friend says, 'Oh, don't get that, it was on TV last week.' I hate when people say that. Who cares? Is it on TV right now? No? Good, then let's rent it.
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The most trivial skirmish is not trivial to those who die in it, and so should not be trivial in any ultimate sense to us.
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The world has held great Heroes,As history books have showed;But never a name to go down to fameCompared with that of Toad!
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Advertising is speech. It's regulated because it's often effective speech.
