Richard Jewell Quotes

While the government can tell you that I am an innocent man, the government's letter cannot give me back my good name or my reputation.

Richard Jewell

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• The name of the game is to keep from pushing the accelerator pedal so hard that we speed up the aging process. The average American, however, by living a fast and furious lifestyle, pushes that accelerator too hard and too much.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • Up
  • American
  • Game

• Chicago still remains a Mecca of the Midwest - people from both coasts are kind of amazed how good life is in Chicago and what a good culture we've got. You can have a pretty wonderful artistic life and never leave Chicago.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• What I've learned is that you really don't need to be a celebrity or have money or have the paparazzi following you around to be famous.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Money
  • Famous
  • Celebrity

• For me, California is all about rest, relaxation, space.

  

  Karen O
  • Space
  • Rest
  • California

• When I was auditioning for 'True Grit,' I was on the Paramount lot. I was wearing clothes from the 1800s that were big and uncomfortable.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • True
  • Clothes
  • Uncomfortable

• If I present a boring personal life to my readers, it's going to be harder for them to think of my novels as thrilling.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Life
  • Think
  • Present

• I think that Pebble Beach is my favorite golf course to go to. I think Augusta is my favorite place to go play golf.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Think
  • Golf
  • Beach

• I find it frustrating when people wear belts with braces. That's an interesting one.

  

  Olly Murs
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Find

• I don't want to take names, but there are some people who get everything served on a platter. This is a movie, this is your role, and you have to do it. Some people have to strive so hard to reach where they have and want to.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • People
  • Movie
  • Want

• Now, on nights that I can't sleep, I play video games alone until the morning.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • Alone
  • Morning
  • Sleep

• If Gretzky was velvet, Ovechkin is electricity.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Electricity
  • Velvet
  • Gretzky

• The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Free
  • Learning
  • Understanding

• Fights over ideas are the most vicious of all. If it were merely food, or water, or shelter, we would work something out. But in the realm of ideas one can become idealistic.

  

  Kim Stanley Robinson
  • Work
  • Food
  • Water

• Don't think about anything for too long. Even if it's off-the-wall, go for it. You'll have a lot more fun in life.

  

  Chelsea Handler
  • Life
  • Long
  • Fun

• When I'm writing the book I'm laughing at just how overblown the characters seemed. How full of himself he seems. But I didn't get far enough in the series to really drive the joke of it home.

  

  Jhonen Vasquez
  • Writing
  • Home
  • Book

• Took us a great amount of strength to get them into the world, and for them to be in the world. I think that their little spirits, you know, just said, well, we're going to be there. So it makes it very special because of it.

  

  Cheryl Tiegs
  • World
  • Great

• America is becoming more and more dependent upon imports from foreign manufacturers than we are exports from our country in all fields: in appliances, in clothing, even food. This year America may become for the first time in its history a net food importer.

  

  Marcy Kaptur
  • Time
  • Country
  • May

• I am a strong supporter of President Obama and was the first national Hispanic elected official to endorse him, and I want him to be reelected in 2012.

  

  Luis Gutierrez
  • Strong

• I'm pretty sure I peaked at 15.

  

  Mary H.K. Choi
  • Pretty

• Biden's about as disciplined as a puppy, OK?

  

  Jesse Watters
  • Puppy

• Now it's fantastic, this is a medium that adults should be able to enjoy, it's not just for our kids. I feel like now with Adult Swim and all these different outlets for adults to enjoy animation, it's huge. I love being a part of it, absolutely love it.

  

  Rachael MacFarlane
  • Different
  • Kids
  • Love Is

• I get laid on purpose. I can't sleep before a competition and I'm up all night, anyway, so instead of staring at the ceiling I figure I might as well find somebody and fuck... we had girls backstage giving head, then all of us went out and I won. It didn't bother me at all; in fact, I went out there feeling like King Kong.

  

  Arnold Schwarzenegger
  • Up
  • Night
  • Giving

• I never thought I'd be on T.V. For me as a kid in Liverpool, it was a more realistic option to be a singer.

  

  Cilla Black
  • Option

• While the government can tell you that I am an innocent man, the government's letter cannot give me back my good name or my reputation.

  

  Richard Jewell
  • Giving
  • Government
  • Reputation