Rene Ricard Quotes
Charles James was a dear friend of mine when I was a little boy - 17, 18. He was mad as a hatter. I had no idea how famous he was.
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I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
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It's such a diversion to be constantly thinking of better ways I can teach people math that my hunger is for that really, for new ways of translating the beauty of it.
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I think probably honesty is the biggest quality I look for in a relationship. Being exactly who you are with the other person.
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I was for sure not prepared for fame when it happened.
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It is everybody's wish to work with Mani Ratnam.
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At least I can say that I'm honest.
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I don't enjoy being a celebrity, I don't want any part of that or any part of that fame for fame... i'd actually rather die than be a celebrity slime!!!
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I believe I am a moderate Democrat: I am pro-business and also progressive.
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Any experience can be transformed into something of value.
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I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other.
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I am a huge bull on this country. We will not have a double-dip recession at all. I see our businesses coming back almost across the board.
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He was a decent enough guy, but he was always at his worst when he was trying to be sincere.
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With his death, we have lost a very great chess genius whose like we'll never see again.
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Since the eighteenth century the immense expansion of the worlds wealth has come about as a result of a correspondingly immense expansion of credit, which in turn has demanded increasingly stupendous suspensions of disbelief.
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A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.
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Right now, musically I'm inspired by everyday people.
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In America, politicians do whatever to get re-elected, and a lot of decisions that were being made at that time by Kennedy were certain not to get him re-elected.
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Sharpton and Jackson are 'race brokers.' Their job is to define black identity and then keep blacks in line to vote to the highest Democratic bidder that serves their purposes. 'Black enough' is just another tool in the bamboozler's toolbox.
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I don't know - to be honest, I don't really model myself after anybody.
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Let the consequences of your obedience be left up to God.
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Probably the biggest influence on my career was the late John Hersey, who, while he was at 'The New Yorker,' wrote one of the masterpieces of narrative non-fiction, 'Hiroshima.' Hersey was a teacher of mine at Yale, and a friend. He got me to see the possibility of journalism not just as a business but as an art form.
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In our travels, we have come across many equations - math for understanding the universe, for making music, for mapping stars, and also for tipping, which is important. Here is our favorite equation: Us plus Them equals All of Us. It is very simple math. Try it sometime. You probably won’t even need a pencil.
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Each project, I can almost feel like I'm like a different person.
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Charles James was a dear friend of mine when I was a little boy - 17, 18. He was mad as a hatter. I had no idea how famous he was.
