Richard Scott Bakker Quotes
Something ... made him feel small, not in the way of orphans or beggars or children, but in a good way. In the way of souls.
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Well, I decided to stop. And I did. I stopped smoking, and I stopped speed at the same time.
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I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.
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Although some secrecy is odious, some is essential just to preserve our sense of self.
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He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.
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Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
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You learn to control every aspect of your muscles, your face, your toes, your fingernails. And that is how you tell a story, through movement.
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I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.
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Every minute I'm on the set, it's play time for me. I feel like I'm on the beach!
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Well, I'm not going to sit here and pretend that I haven't been a rogue most of my life.
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Spiritual practice should not be confused with grim duty. It is the laughter of the Dalai Lama and the wonder born with every child.
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I think I always try to be accommodating and open and available and proving for my director. I love to give as many takes as they want. I love to give them as many choices as they want.
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Any psychologist will tell you that healing comes from honest confrontation with our injury or with our past. Whatever that thing is that has hurt us or traumatized us, until we face it head on, we will have issues moving forward in a healthy way.
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All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.
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The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.
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My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
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If I had a daughter, and some guy came home with her, I'd be on him like a hawk. When I meet people's parents, I know my place. It's not that hard.
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The fans treated me royally.
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The question that we must ask is whether we are making progress toward the goal of universal peace. Or are we caught up on a treadmill of history, turning forever on the axle of mindless aggression and self-destruction?
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The problem is that young people are less likely to vote than older people. What results is a situation in which sometimes the elections don't fully reflect the views of the American population.
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The oak has long been an enduring and mighty tree. It is truly a part of our national heritage and it merits the formal distinction of America's National Tree.
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I was a teacher. I also worked at Harlem Children's Zone. I moved back to Baltimore and opened up an after-school, out-of-school program on the west side and then worked in two public school districts, in Baltimore and Minneapolis.
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There is no harm in repeating a good thing.
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That's what a good crime novelist - any good novelist - should do with you: play with your perceptions while showing you everything in plain sight.
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Something ... made him feel small, not in the way of orphans or beggars or children, but in a good way. In the way of souls.
