John Rampton Quotes
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I was very influenced by movies; I was very influenced by a world that had a sense of dream.
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Most of the people nowadays send their things by internet. But I cannot work that way. I like to do it myself.
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Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?
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I've been busy and need to slow my little tail down and sit and meditate somewhere. I do my walking meditations every day, but just to sit still. Just to be in one place and just to be quiet.
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My wife, Caroline Spector, and I pitched some comic ideas to various publishers back in the '80s, but nothing ever came of it.
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Kosovo today is closer to Europe than other countries in the region of South Eastern Europe.
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You can't reverse fame. You can lose all the money, but you'll never lose people knowing you.
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If you look at the very best presidents, the most effective presidents, they were always decent salespeople. Ronald Reagan was an extremely effective salesman, very tuned to the people he was selling to, very clear in what he was selling, very resilient and buoyant.
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Two of my theatres are 1930s and the other five are by Sprague, the greatest Edwardian architect of the lot. They've needed a lot of work doing to them but they were built very well.
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I have reservations about everything I do.
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'The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movement in Iraq,' by Hanna Batatu. Few may wish to take on this massive, obscure work, but it changed my life, and I love it.
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I have the potential to be very strong and powerful, sometimes angry, sometimes passionate. I also can be shy and withhold that because I am afraid. I don't want to freak anybody out with my passion... So I struggle with that all the time.
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I remember 'Hannah Montana' came out, and I was so depressed, I started crying because I was like, 'I want to do that.'
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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
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All wisdom does not reside in Delhi.
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I've had money thrown onstage, dollars, couple of five-dollar bills. I took the money, but it wasn't much.
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When you go from one place to another, you go with experience, you don't go with prescriptions.
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I've always seen the world through the eyes of a scientist. I love the predictable outcomes that science gives us, the control over the world that that can render.
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Larry Fink, 61, tall and outgoing and passionate about his business, is the chairman, CEO, and co-founder of the largest asset-management company in the world, BlackRock.
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There are always going to be encounters that you kind of wish went differently. But the average fan really isn't fanatical.
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I knew my destiny was to be in the winner's circle. There were times along the way where I didn't make it there. But I felt my destiny was definitely to win big titles, win lots of titles.
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I will find that special person who is wrong for me in just the right way.
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I loved Cambodia; watching the sun rise at Angkor Wat was really beautiful.
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I produce a lot of content, both to help others online and to promote my business.
