Richard Kiel (Richard Dawson Kiel) Quotes

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• Many financial and industrial companies have been bailed out with the public's money, but very few of those who had run those companies have been punished for their failures. Yes, the top managers of those companies have lost their jobs - but with a fat pension and mostly with a handsome severance payment.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Money
  • Lost
  • Financial

• I've been called 'Bruce Lee.' I've been called other less offensive, but equally stupid and racist kind of terms.

  

  Randall Park
  • Kind
  • Stupid
  • Offensive

• It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Violence
  • Politics
  • Better

• People look at me as sort of a diplomat for Turkey, which by nature, I'm not; I don't want to be. It's again about that playfulness. Being Turkey's voice or representative is not playful, it's not childlike; it makes me self-conscious, kills the child in me.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • People
  • Nature
  • Child

• One thing a lot of people don't know about Fun. was that the three of us all came from 10 years of touring with our own projects. That's how we met, actually.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • People
  • Fun
  • Know

• The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.

  

  Karl Marx
  • History
  • Class
  • Struggles

• I think people I'm close to find it absolutely crazy that I'm famous.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • People
  • Crazy
  • Famous

• Women were going back to work, they were assuming their own power. They didn't have time to sit under the dryer.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Time
  • Work
  • Women

• For technology companies, information about what people do online is extremely valuable - it can be used to sell targeted advertising or sold to data clearinghouses.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • People
  • Technology
  • Advertising

• A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Life
  • Important
  • Impact

• Mankind is like dogs, not gods - as long as you don't get mad they'll bite you - but stay mad and you'll never be bitten. Dogs don't respect humility and sorrow.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Long
  • Respect
  • Mad

• I create fictional narratives, but it's based on literal people.

  

  Danai Gurira
  • People
  • Create
  • Based

• Everybody that's trying to get anything progressive done in this country knows that the biggest barrier is getting money out of politics.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Country
  • Trying
  • Money

• Studies show when people yell, they get themselves even angrier. Interesting factoid: If you and/or your partner's heartbeat becomes higher than 100 beats per minute during an argument, you will not be able to fully understand/process what the other is saying.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Partner

• One of the things I'm fascinated by as a traveler is watching how different countries control how they let the world encounter them.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • World
  • Different
  • Control

• Moscow is a huge inspiration for me. I love what I find here, I love being here.

  

  Natalia Vodianova
  • Inspiration
  • Find
  • Being

• There are commonalities among all the pandemics that occur, and we can learn from them. One commonality is that they all come from animals. And the other commonality is that we wait too long.

  

  Nathan Wolfe
  • Long
  • Learn
  • Animals

• I've got a very interesting background.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Interesting
  • Got
  • Background

• I would go from one city to the next, inspired by the monks in the Middle Ages, who would carry knowledge from one monastery to the next monastery.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Knowledge
  • City
  • Inspired

• The transparency men have enjoyed for generations, about their ability to frankly work while also reveling in fatherhood, is still complicated for women. Which is not to say that anyone can have everything.

  

  Mona Simpson
  • Generations
  • Enjoyed
  • Fatherhood

• As athletes, most of the time we deal with fans cussing at us, saying how much we suck.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Time
  • Fans
  • Saying

• One of the hardest things for me to do is be fully open in a poem. By that I mean, honest and not trying to amplify some mythological version of myself. I was a poor, geeky black kid in Indianapolis. There is nothing mythological about that. So to try to truly render the kind of economic and racial inequity I grew up in, I had to find a way to be more honest about what happened. And it wasn't fun to write, even though the poems aren't 100% autobiographical.

  

  Adrian Matejka
  • Poems
  • Autobiographical
  • Inequity

• Once a Bond fan, always a Bond fan.

  

  Richard Kiel
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