Jef I. Richards Quotes

Commercial speech is like obscenity... we can't seem to define it, but we know it when we see it.

Jef I. Richards

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• Well, when I was 13, for my bar mitzvah I received my first typewriter. And that was special.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • First
  • Special
  • Bar

• The most violent and troubling stories become part of our national consciousness about foster care.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Care
  • Consciousness
  • Become

• No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Writing
  • Think
  • Best

• 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.

  

  Bastian Schweinsteiger
  • Change
  • Perfect
  • Myself

• 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.

  

  Rafe Spall
  • Up
  • Money
  • Free

• I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Audience
  • Find
  • Situation

• Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Men
  • Science
  • Wonder

• 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.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • People
  • Fun
  • Know

• 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.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Better
  • Face
  • Election

• 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.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Think
  • Write
  • Worth

• How does one get bored of life?

  

  Osric Chau
  • Life
  • Bored
  • How

• 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.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Work
  • Together
  • Day

• 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.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Life
  • College
  • Football

• I hate to wait. When I want something, I want it now.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Want
  • Hate
  • Wait

• 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.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Book
  • History
  • Friend

• Even if you have some extra kilos, you don't need to kill yourself for that; you just have to look at yourself as a positive.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Positive
  • Yourself
  • Look

• There's more to life than football, right?

  

  Fabrice Muamba
  • Life
  • Football
  • More

• But did I think it would last more than 13 episodes at the time? No, I didn't think that. I never know.

  

  Fisher Stevens
  • Time
  • Think
  • Know

• 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.

  

  Finley Peter Dunne
  • Guilty
  • Innocent

• The world is not based on fairness. Human beings can rise to fairness, can administer something that makes it fair or just. But that's not God.

  

  Gene Wilder
  • World
  • God

• I don't believe in anti-aging creams. I believe the skin should be clean, should be nourished, but most of all you should eat the right things.

  

  Sofia Villani Scicolone
  • Should
  • Skins
  • Clean

• When you take the time to cleanse your physical body of accumulated stress and toxicity, you are rewarded with increased vitality and optimal health.

  

  Debbie Ford
  • Time
  • Health
  • Stress

• People just like the thrill of anything. Dangerous things and dark things are exciting. Like as a kid, I knew I wasn't going to get killed if I went into the Haunted House but you kind of feel like you are. And when it comes out the track the other side, it's like, "we're still alive"! And I find it really funny when adults get really scared because I've not been really scared since I saw Jaws when I was a little kid. I just think people like the thrill of it, they like to feel like they accomplished something, that they survived the movie.

  

  Rob Zombie
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Kids

• Commercial speech is like obscenity... we can't seem to define it, but we know it when we see it.

  

  Jef I. Richards