Jeff Rich Quotes
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The most important thing Paris gave me was a perspective on Latin America. It taught me the differences between Latin America and Europe and among the Latin American countries themselves through the Latins I met there.
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Whenever I go to L.A., the make-up artist or hairdresser will end up having a conversation about how fat they think they are, and I really just can't take it seriously at all.
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Without this tremendous passion for power, influence, and advantage which money gives, how could nature develop the highest type of man? Without this infinite longing, whence would come the discipline which industry, perseverance, tact, sagacity, and frugality give?
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I want a platform that, like a book or a magazine, I can carry into the bath or leave at the beach.
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An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.
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Censorship is the thing that stops you doing what you want to do, and what writers want to talk about is what they do, not what stops them doing it.
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I'd like to be for cinema what Shakespeare was for theatre, Marx for politics and Freud for psychology: someone after whom nothing is as it used to be.
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Mangroves, salt marshes and sea grass lock away carbon at up to five times the rate of tropical forests.
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Sometimes when you're looking at your own work, you can't really see, and it's only when you step back a little bit later that you think, 'Oh, that's completely in line with everything else I've done.'
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Very unusual in an insurgency to have absolutely no political agenda other than to return to power. Most insurgents have a political side to them.
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I work hard, but my modeling career gives my views undeserved attention.
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Sometimes the most difficult, horrific things can be the greatest spiritual teachers.
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Relevance, for me, is about being creative and doing things that you believe in, whether that's music or acting or painting a picture, or whatever that is.
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A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people.
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A neoconservative is a liberal who has been mugged by reality. A neoliberal is a liberal who got mugged by reality but has not pressed charges.
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There is nothing so clever as people you agree with.
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Dispensing with confrontation because testimony is obviously reliable is akin to dispensing with jury trial because a defendant is obviously guilty.
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'Let your occupations be few,' says the sage, 'if you would lead a tranquil life.'
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But I'm looking at life, and I'm putting nothing off.
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Archimedes constructing his circle pays with his life for his defective biological adaptation to immediate circumstances.
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I've never seen hard work fail.
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Sound is the vocabulary of nature.
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By silence, I hear other men's imperfections and conceal my own.
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Hell hath no fury like a politican scorned.
