Jef I. Richards Quotes

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Jef I. Richards

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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?'

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Book
  • Trust
  • Husband

• 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.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • People
  • Hope
  • Moral

• 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.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • People
  • Why
  • Man

• 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.

  

  Fernando Torres
  • Important
  • Game
  • Change

• 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.

  

  Wale
  • Hope
  • Think
  • Best

• 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.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Up
  • Guy
  • Down

• 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.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Changes
  • Ego
  • Self

• You just can't help but sort of think that your life and your career are going to go straight up, up, up.

  

  Tate Donovan
  • Life
  • Up
  • Help

• I want to make it to Heaven and be as good an influence on others as I can in that process.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Good
  • Heaven
  • Process

• Directing her was like directing Lassie. You need 14 takes to get each one of them right.

  

  Otto Preminger
  • You
  • Need
  • Her

• 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.

  

  Valentino Rossi
  • Time
  • Work
  • Understanding

• The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Art
  • Giving
  • Pleasure

• When I go out on the ice, I just think about my skating. I forget it is a competition.

  

  Katarina Witt
  • Think
  • Competition
  • Ice

• 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.

  

  Isaac D'Israeli
  • Work
  • Design
  • Author

• 'If your actions are motivated by selfish interests rather than God, you are mortgaging tomorrow's joy.'

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • God
  • Joy
  • Selfish

• The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the shade,For talking age and whispering lovers made.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Age

• Tous nous serions transformés si nous avions le courage d'être ce que nous sommes.

  

  Marguerite Yourcenar
  • Courage

• I was born in Montreal and came from a lower-middle-class family.

  

  Maureen Forrester
  • Family

• I draft on the computer. I have a really giant screen that attaches to my laptop, and then I have a humongous digital drawing tablet called a Cintiq. It sits at all different angles, and it's so big that it would take two people to move it.

  

  Jeff Kinney
  • People
  • Different
  • Drawing

• One of the reporters must have flunked journalism school because he asked a question that went straight to the point.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • School
  • Funny
  • Question

• In 1991, if someone came in with a $1 million budget for a boutique, I would have fainted. Nobody spent even half that. But now, the bar has risen very high.

  

  Peter Marino
  • High

• There's something beautifully friendly and elevating about a bunch of guys playing music together. This wonderful little world that is unassailable. It's really teamwork, one guy supporting the others, and it's all for one purpose, and there's no flies in the ointment, for a while. And nobody conducting, it's all up to you. It's really jazz__that's the big secret. Rock and roll ain't nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.

  

  Keith Richards The Rolling Stones
  • Disappointed
  • List
  • Fell

• A lot of people think that celebrities are fake, and a couple of them are.

  

  Brooke Hogan
  • People
  • Fake
  • Celebrities

• Advertising is speech. It's regulated because it's often effective speech.

  

  Jef I. Richards