Jeff Raikes Quotes
One of my great values that my father intuited, and indirectly taught me, is that you should always have a plan but be open to opportunity.
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Not everybody fantasizes about robbing a bank, but I think most people have that fantasy of being in a high speed chase.
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When you're bullied in high school, even if it's the smallest amount, or you're actually tortured, I feel like everybody carries that with them. They always think of that one person who treated them badly in high school.
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Younger audiences are into me because I did 'Stuart Little,' and that movie was a very big deal for kids. And in 'Angels in the Outfield,' a generation of kids learned about magic and angels. And then, of course, there are these two blond girls named Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, and I played their nanny on their TV show.
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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
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I have gotten more flak for being a conservative Republican than I have for being trans.
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There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
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Russia is an amazing country to be an entrepreneur.
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If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man.
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I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
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Your focus should be on creating an environment where growth can occur and then letting nature take its course.
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I don't feel comfortable making empty music.
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Time was God's first creation.
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A doctor is not a mechanic. A car doesn't react with a mechanic, but a human being does.
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I've got a 1990 Porsche 911. It's just a Carrera, a very simple, straightforward little thing that goes like stink. I love it.
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I always see where I didn't do things the right way. I only see the heavy lifting. That's a bit of my wisdom, if you want to call it that.
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When I was little, I wanted to be an astronomer, but that didn't happen.
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Duty is for Kant the One and All. Out of the duty of gratitude, he claims, one has to defend and esteem the ancients; and only out of duty has he become a great man.
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I always try to start my weekend by running on the beach, which is great fun here in Barcelona.
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The computer dictates how you do something, whereas with a pencil you're totally free.
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Thank God I've never had the sort of intense fame that means you can't walk up the road. That sort of blazing stardom must be difficult to cope with and maintain; my career has just bubbled along happily.
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I don't want people to think of me as sexy.
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If there's age discrimination - and there may be - I've always felt that the person who discriminates is hurt more than the person being discriminated against, if the second person shucks it off and moves forward.
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One of my challenges was to try to photograph the Great Wall of China. And I did actually take some photos, but it was hard to discern the wall with the naked eye.
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One of my great values that my father intuited, and indirectly taught me, is that you should always have a plan but be open to opportunity.
