Richard L. Evans Quotes
May we never let the things we can't have, or don't have, or shouldn't have, spoil our enjoyment of the things we do have and can have. As we value our happiness let us not forget it. For one of the greatest lessons in life is learning to be happy without the things we cannot or should not have.
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Money opens up wonderful worlds of possibilities.
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During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
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Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
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I don't accept gifts from perfect strangers - but then, nobody's perfect.
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I heard the new film, 'Tangerine,' was filmed entirely on iPhones. No cameras were involved!
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I think what probably happens when you put two awkward/clunky people together is that their awkward/clunky world seems like a normal world.
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O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.
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The more sympathy you give, the less you need.
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I've had so many injuries.
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I do everything I can to have a diverse career because I just want to have options. I know that I can do Hamlet or I can do Stanley Kowalski, you know.
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A handkerchief can never be put in another pocket after it has been in one pocket. I don't walk under ladders. I have items of clothing that are lucky for me. That rotates, but I am luck-oriented.
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There's nothing anyone can do about Tiger Woods but look at his game and swoon.
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Gold medals are made out of sweat, blood and tears and effort in the gym every day.
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The adjustment of reality to the masses and of the masses to reality is a process of unlimited scope, as much for thinking as for perception.
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It is not true that we shall necessarily progress if our political conditions undergo a change, irrespectively of the manner in which it is brought about. If the means employed are impure, the change will not be in the direction of progress but very likely in the opposite.
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I was instructor To the whole universe. I shall be until the judgement On the face of the Earth.
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I knew I couldn't solve it. Because I couldn't figure out what made her drink when things were going well.
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To me, if you're going to talk about funk, you have to go back to George Clinton and Bernie Worrell. Those guys are the giants. I've played with Bernie, and it was unreal. He's the master.
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I'm a pants girl. I just feel more comfortable in them.
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I can do accents really well.
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I was embarrassed by it and racked by middle-class guilt. But when you're on stage, if you're trying to be something you're not, it becomes so much harder. It's better to be honest and take every vulnerability and flaw you have, and mock them and deal with them.
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What is fascinating to me is the way I view everything in terms of parallels and connections. When I read about Achilles and Odysseus in Homer's 'Iliad,' I can see parallels in Chinese historical romances, in the way the first emperor of the Han dynasty and his chief rival are portrayed.
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If you have the right voice and the right delivery, you're cocky enough, and you pound down on the punch line, you can say anything and make people laugh maybe three times before they realize you're not telling jokes.
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May we never let the things we can't have, or don't have, or shouldn't have, spoil our enjoyment of the things we do have and can have. As we value our happiness let us not forget it. For one of the greatest lessons in life is learning to be happy without the things we cannot or should not have.
