Jef I. Richards Quotes

While it may be true that the best advertising is word-of-mouth, never lose sight of the fact it also can be the worst advertising.

Jef I. Richards

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• When I started acting, it was like a double identity crisis - your basic crisis, compounded by people saying, 'there goes Robards' kid, Bacall's kid.' Now I realize, sure, that gets your foot in the door, but once it's there, it's your foot. I'm not bothered anymore. I'm confident of my abilities.

  

  Sam Robards
  • People
  • Door
  • Identity

• A feeling of alienation existed in India about life in Pakistan because most of what was known was negative. So, everyone used to believe things in our country are always bad, and we don't lead a happy life. But this has changed to some extent. After watching our dramas, people now know that we lead our lives similar to the way they live.

  

  Umera Ahmad
  • People
  • Life
  • Believe

• Why pay a fee for Internet content when a million free sites are just a click away? There's no incentive until people are too addicted to the Net to turn off their computers, yet are bored with what's available.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • Why
  • Free

• I'd done some acting stuff when I was younger, around age nine.

  

  Samuel Larsen
  • Done
  • Age
  • Acting

• It's abhorrent to me that somebody is just evil, and you can't explain it.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Evil
  • Explain
  • Abhorrent

• We may define therapy as a search for value.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • May
  • Value
  • Search

• Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education - I told my children not to worry about their grades but to enjoy learning.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Children
  • Education
  • College

• I've made club songs, and I've made radio songs, and I've made the car songs.

  

  T-Pain
  • Car
  • Made
  • Radio

• Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish.

  

  Ovid
  • Powerful
  • Chance
  • Pool

• Remember how small the world was before I came along? I brought it all to life: I moved the whole world onto a 20-foot screen.

  

  D. W. Griffith
  • Life
  • World
  • Remember

• My greatest concern is that the emergence of this technology without the appropriate public attention and international controls could lead to an unstable arms race.

  

  K. Eric Drexler
  • Attention
  • Technology
  • Race

• Notting Hill is a very different carnival from anywhere else. This is an international city, so it represents everybody. You walk around every corner here, you'll hear something new. It's awesome.

  

  Leighton Paul Walsh
  • Different
  • City
  • Awesome

• I don't even like to go out onto the streets sometimes because I can't get anything done. People want pictures and autographs all the time.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • People
  • Time
  • Done

• I always got nervous the nights we played in the World Series. First pitch, I was nervous. Then after that, forget it; I'd start playing.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • World
  • Forget
  • Start

• There is definitely a need for increasing capacity in higher education; a large part of this is being met in the technical education segment by the private sector and in the non-technical by the state sector. In the public sector, we will do whatever we can afford.

  

  Pallam Raju
  • Education
  • Need
  • Will

• I see poetry as spiritual medicine.

  

  Mahmoud Darwish
  • Spiritual
  • Poetry
  • Medicine

• Because America is a democracy, public support for presidential foreign-policy decisions is essential.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • America
  • Support
  • Democracy

• We want to let our play be the judges.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Want
  • Play
  • Judges

• There's a lot of instant spotlight and pressure when it comes to a Bond song.

  

  Barbara Broccoli
  • Song
  • Pressure
  • Bond

• When you realize my best selling books are 'Owl Moon,' the 'How Do Dinosaur' books, and 'Devil's Arithmetic,' how can the public make sense of that! I have fans who think I only write picture books or only write SF and fantasy. I have fanatics of my poetry and are stunned to find out I write prose, too!

  

  Jane Yolen
  • Poetry
  • Picture
  • Moon

• That attitude toward women as objects may have worked for the late Sixties, but it doesn't do so now.

  

  John Schlesinger
  • Women
  • May
  • Attitude

• In the little town where I live in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, we now have a 'Public Safety Complex' around the corner from what used to be our hokey Andy Griffith-esque fire station.

  

  Rachel Maddow
  • Live
  • Fire
  • Safety

• As a young analyst just out of Stanford business school in the 1960s, I got to really understand what growth was about. Back then, you had to ask a customer to pay some money. That was the most important thing in getting a company off the ground.

  

  Charles Schwab
  • Important
  • School
  • Money

• While it may be true that the best advertising is word-of-mouth, never lose sight of the fact it also can be the worst advertising.

  

  Jef I. Richards
  • May
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