Richard Scott Bakker Quotes
Saying 'I could have done more,' Zin, is what marks a man as a man and not a God.
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Mr. Fitzgerald, I believe that is how he spells his name, seems to believe that plagiarism begins at home.
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We share a wonderful, I think, physical or geographical heritage.
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I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: 'Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar.'
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Scoring the first 10 in history was a big deal, but the fact that even an electronic scoreboard could not figure out how to put out a score, it made the story more historic.
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Working with the brothers can put pressure on my voice, so I choose to do my own solo thing so I can save my voice. I couldn't do both now. The Neville Brothers is a funk band; they play loud, and I have a strong voice.
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Whenever I do something, it seems so right. And turns out so wrong.
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I'm one of those pesky Brits.
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Most people who have encountered mercury have done so after breaking a mercury thermometer. And many of us who saw the liquid balls of mercury scatter across a floor or countertop considered the element the most beautiful on the periodic table.
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I just picked up golf, it was good, give me a chance to play golf.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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Bob Dylan impresses me about as much as... well, I was gonna say a slug but I like slugs.
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Marriage takes work - it doesn't just happen.
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Tech is all about building human connections.
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I want my legacy to be about the soccer, and if I can help people be happier in life in any capacity, awesome.
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Sometimes there are some matchups and man-to-mans that you like to match up on.
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Do you know how many companies have wanted me to do an energy drink for them because I named my book 'Crush It!'? It might be fun one day, but right now I think it would undermine the personal brand I've built.
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Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
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You have to come in on a professional level to make it, otherwise you just can't get into rap.
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The peak of a career can only last so long. You go up and you try to maintain it. But, it can only last so long and then you're going to go down.
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When I was a kid, you went and saw movies. You knew very little about the actor's personal life except what would be, like, in Photoplay or something. We didn't hear "The Making of..." every single movie, and actors didn't have to put this tremendous piece of work that they'd done into a sound bite.
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You can't always measure the effects of activist work; you just have to wish and pray that the message gets through.
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You're going to learn that one of the most brutal things in the world is your average nineteen-year-old American boy.
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If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature. Lovely.
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Saying 'I could have done more,' Zin, is what marks a man as a man and not a God.
