Richard Lamm Quotes

Many seniors understand that Social Security is social insurance as opposed to a program where we put money aside for our own retirement. But most elderly individuals think they're getting their money back. So it isn't selfishness as much as a misunderstanding.

Richard Lamm

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• I tend to deal with characters who are sort of at that same point of wrestling with, 'Who am I going to be as an adult? What do I believe? How am I defining myself in the context of my culture and my peer groups, my family?'

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Believe
  • Family
  • Culture

• The difference between an actor and a star is the budget and the overall presentation of a film.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Star
  • Budget
  • Presentation

• My father was the proprietor of a music shop on Forty-third Street, where many of the finest performers and musicians of the day would come to shop. He knew the classical repertoire inside out.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Music
  • Father
  • Day

• Whether I'm wearing lots of makeup or no makeup, I'm always the same person inside.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Same
  • Makeup
  • Inside

• In general, questions are fine; you can always seize upon the parts of them that interest you and concentrate on answering those. And one has to remember when answering questions that asking questions isn't easy either, and for someone who's quite shy to stand up in an audience to speak takes some courage.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Courage

• I had seen AIDS patients in India and Africa, and knowing that people were dying even though drugs existed that could help them was shattering for me.

  

  Yusuf Hamied
  • People
  • Help
  • Dying

• If we were the team that won out, then life was good and we felt that we were worth something.

  

  Barry Mann
  • Life
  • Good
  • Team

• The future is never written...only penciled in.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Future

• I think there are a lot of great ideas out in America, and I want you to have a say in your government. And that means we have to get unaccountable money out of our politics, overturn Citizens United, and expand voting rights, not restrict them.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Great
  • Money
  • America

• There's a style to doing period pieces, and you can't do a Western without understanding 'My Darling Clementine.'

  

  Mary Steenburgen
  • Style
  • Understanding
  • Period

• It's hard to write a song about reality because reality doesn't rhyme.

  

  CeeLo Green
  • Song
  • Reality

• Federal funding for biomedical sciences plays a critical role in training the next generation of scientists.

  

  Carol W. Greider
  • Training

• As a black woman in the industry, you really do have to hold your head higher, stick your chest out, be kind and polite and generous even when you don't want to be sometimes. I learned that and, also, just to never take no for an answer.

  

  Lena Waithe
  • Black

• If you have enthusiasm, you have a very dynamic, effective companion to travel with you on the road to Somewhere.

  

  Loretta Young
  • Road
  • Travel

• I was a cute kid.

  

  Jean-Michel Basquiat
  • Cute

• Sometimes people try to read into my strip and find out what my state of mind is. And I can say if I'm in a good mood, generally the comic strip starts out in a good mood, but the punchline is very negative and sour.

  

  Matt Groening
  • People
  • Good
  • Mind

• I came to Christ when I was thirty-eight. That transformed my life.

  

  Jennifer O'Neill
  • Life

• Other people have hang-ups about what's literary or genre or whatever, and that's sort of not my problem. You're supposed to write what you have to write, and you're supposed to keep moving.

  Colson Whitehead
  • People
  • Moving

• It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

  

  Jean de La Fontaine

• Every time I play in a movie, I never expect that it'll be huge. I don't like thinking about that, because it's so scary.

  

  Melanie Laurent
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Movie

• Watching NASCAR with my wife is like taking a test. Every single turn, she has a question. Now, here's the problem. Sometimes her questions actually make sense. I don't have an answer for them. So, I have to that guy thing and go Pfft! You ever hear your man do that, ladies? That means he doesn't know the answer, but he's thinking.

  

  Bill Engvall
  • Thinking
  • She
  • Guy

• Refuse to criticize, condemn, or complain. Instead, think and talk only about the things you really want.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Thinking
  • inspirational
  • Complaining

• My family lives there, so I come back sometimes between shows for a couple days. I get back a couple times a year. When I was 30 to 34 I was weirded out when I came back - you know, how your past gets away from you. It's grown so much.

  

  Matthew Sweet
  • Family
  • Past
  • Couple

• Many seniors understand that Social Security is social insurance as opposed to a program where we put money aside for our own retirement. But most elderly individuals think they're getting their money back. So it isn't selfishness as much as a misunderstanding.

  

  Richard Lamm
  • Thinking
  • Individual
  • Program