Richard LaGravenese Quotes
When I was young, I had two older sisters, and since I was the youngest in my family, my mom took me around with her all the time. I was forever with her when she was having coffee in the middle of the afternoon with her three sisters. And they would talk about men. I absorbed a lot of that.
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It's easy to have a good season but if you want to have a great season you have got to win a major tournament.
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I think, as far as branching out with acting, it would take something really right on the mark to distract me from music, because music is everything to me.
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By 1946, I knew Detroit was the best hockey city in the Original Six.
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I have never seen a bad television program, because I refuse to. God gave me a mind, and a wrist that turns things off.
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There are people who want me to do a cologne. They want to call it 'Patrick.' I was offered a fortune to make exercise videos. Posters, all kinds of stuff – something like $10 million worth. It's insanity. I'm not going to do any of it.
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Gee, its lonesome in the outfield. It's hard to keep awake with nothing to do.
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I'd never hurt another person.
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Russians don't complain, usually.
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A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.
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So obviously, any religion embodies some form of rules and expectations for behavior, and even sometimes consequences, and they don't want to hear any of that.
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I even done a doo-wop version of the Mickey Mouse march.
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In my opinion, nothing changes after you get married. If ain't broke, don't fix it.
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Public health and safety are my highest priorities.
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If I'm really honest, I can't cook. I'm, like, the worst, worst, worst cook in the world.
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I don't lose my temper. I used to, but I realised I would probably die of a brain hemorrhage. So I've governed myself not to mind about things. I have no road rage or anything like that. Because it's life-shortening. And also, there's no need for it; it uses up energy.
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That's one of the things that's great about acting. You can play all the different aspects of a human being.
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Depression opens the door to beauty of some kind.
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A lot of the people of the Midwest came from the Northeast. We're of the same stock. Yet something must have happened when we crossed the Ohio River Valley because I have sensed that there's more of an openness and flexibility of spirit out West.
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I was born abroad, but my parents were both English. Still, those few years of separation, and then coming back to England as an outsider, did give me an ability to see the country in a slightly detached way. I suppose I was made aware of what Englishness actually is because I only became immersed in it later in life.
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Agribusiness - with its wicked powerful lobby and its infiltration of top bureaucratic posts - essentially runs roughshod over the government agencies that are supposed to monitor it. It's the rich fox guarding the filthy, overcrowded henhouse.
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In the age of social media and dating apps, so many people are able to hide behind their Instagram page or their Raya page or Facebook.
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More and more, I think about the role of the arts, and as an artist, I think that it's important that I share the love and peace.
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A typical leader has - a natural tendency is to be defensive in the face of a crisis. The first reaction is to blame someone - or something - else. Often, the blame is aimed at something abstract or non-controllable, which often has nothing to do with the crisis but is adjacent to whatever is going on, so it's an easy target.
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When I was young, I had two older sisters, and since I was the youngest in my family, my mom took me around with her all the time. I was forever with her when she was having coffee in the middle of the afternoon with her three sisters. And they would talk about men. I absorbed a lot of that.
