Jef I. Richards Quotes
Commercial speech is like obscenity... we can't seem to define it, but we know it when we see it.
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Well, when I was 13, for my bar mitzvah I received my first typewriter. And that was special.
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The most violent and troubling stories become part of our national consciousness about foster care.
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No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite.
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I felt within myself that I needed to change what I was doing. I needed a new stimuli. So the interest from Manchester United was a perfect fit.
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When you do a film, you get picked up in a car, lunch is free. Theatre is really hard, and you get absolutely no money.
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I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.
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Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
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One thing a lot of people don't know about Fun. was that the three of us all came from 10 years of touring with our own projects. That's how we met, actually.
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If it's a close election, then it's better for the Supreme Court to pick the president, whether or not he won the election. It's just insane on its face.
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When you write, you're inside the project. You can't really think about the reception. It has to be worth it even if no one reads it.
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How does one get bored of life?
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Since becoming a pop star, I've experimented a lot more. I've gotten more creative with what I wear. My stylist is a bit more adventurous than I would normally be, but it's really worked, and the colours really work together. I think everyone should be a bit more confident: if it's a summer's day, wear some bright colours.
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My favorite sport, frankly, is college football. I'm a college football junkie, even though I'm associated with golf and like golf and have played it all my life.
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I hate to wait. When I want something, I want it now.
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I have three libraries. As a gift, a friend alphabetized and organized my main library of novels, history books, and nonfiction. Then I have a photo-book collection. Then there's this nearly whole room of my childhood books. I've also got cookbooks and a big collection of horse-related books.
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There's more to life than football, right?
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But did I think it would last more than 13 episodes at the time? No, I didn't think that. I never know.
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In England a man is presoomed to be innocent till he's proved guilty an' they take it f 'r granted he's guilty. In this counthry a man is presoomed to be guilty ontil he's proved guilty an' afther that he's presoomed to be innocent.
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When the facts of history are written Haile Selassie of Abyssinia will go down as a great coward who ran away from his country to save his skin and left the millions of his countrymen to struggle through a terrible war that he brought upon them because of his political ignorance and his racial disloyalty.
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Wonder was the motive that led people to philosophy ... wonder is a kind of desire in knowledge. It is the cause of delight because it carries with it the hope of discovery.
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True knowledge is that knowledge which makes man after self-realization or union with God assert that his real Self is in everything and everybody.
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Commercial speech is like obscenity... we can't seem to define it, but we know it when we see it.
