Richard Scott Bakker Quotes
The world is only as deep as we can see. This is why fools think themselves profound. This is why terror is the passion of revelation.
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I've worked hard over the years, I've been injured and I've worked hard through it, and I've made it.
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I start the day with oatmeal with vanilla almond milk. If I don't, I'm dying by noon and eating everything in sight. On-set, I avoid crap and pack soup and salad. I cook pork chops or turkey tacos for dinner.
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It's always been my dream to just continually do really cool indie movies - character-driven stuff.
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The Sunday School teacher talked too much in the way our grade school teacher used to when she told us about George Washington. Pleasant, pretty stories, but not true.
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It is indeed hard for the strong to be just to the weak, but acting justly always has its rewards.
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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.
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Anything - a destination, a person - that has some mystery around it becomes exciting and attractive.
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God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
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I guess it was but I think peoples morality has changed. It's gotten more liberal and more diverse and even in a sense much more fundamental, you take the fundamental religious right in this country, its got to go back about 50 years.
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I'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them.
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In nerve-free multicellular organisms, the relationships of the cells to each other can only be of a chemical nature. In multicellular organisms with nerve systems, the nerve cells only represent cells like any others, but they have extensions suited to the purpose which they serve, namely the nerves.
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Sometimes I listen to music and I wonder how did they get certain sounds.
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When I was a kid, I always had my hair in two plaits. But for dancing, I had to have it in a bun because I did ballet.
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I met Powel Crosley at an All-Star Game in 1935. He was familiar, of course, with our winning record at Rochester. We seemed to hit it off immediately, and the following year, when he was looking for a successor to Larry MacPhail, he thought of me.
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You listen to Black Sabbath with Ronnie James Dio in it, and it's not Black Sabbath. They should have just called it 'Heaven and Hell' right from the beginning. Because you listen to that 'Heaven and Hell' album, that doesn't sound anything close to Black Sabbath.
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I am lactose intolerant, and I always thought it was really funny how people who are lactose intolerant continue to eat dairy, because they like it so much. And I find it not acceptable.
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Madrid is not as big as London, but it is true when you are coming from a big city like Madrid, nothing is going to surprise you, and I am very happy to move to a city like London. It is a big city, and you can do everything you want with the respect that the English people always have.
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It's better to have a rich soul than to be rich.
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They sat for a moment, regarding one another; neither understanding. As if we were two aliens, thought Blaine. With viewpoints that did not come within a million miles of coinciding, and yet they both were men.
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I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans, and I'm rooting for the machines.
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It's hard to tell why something touches a zeitgeist and when that same show doesn't in other places.
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If it is perfectly acceptable for a widow to disfigure herself or commit suicide to save face for her husband's family, why should a mother not be moved to extreme action by the loss of a child or children? We are their caretakers. We love them. We nurse them when they are sick. . . But no woman should live longer than her children. It is against the law of nature. If she does, why wouldn't she wish to leap from a cliff, hang from a branch, or swallow lye?
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The world is only as deep as we can see. This is why fools think themselves profound. This is why terror is the passion of revelation.
