Richard Lamm Quotes

I have no permanent enemies - only people I have yet to persuade.

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• As a child, I remember my dad would sometimes drive me into town with him to play pinball machines together. It's a bittersweet memory but also a favorite.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • Remember
  • Together
  • Dad

• Singing, writing songs, is kind of my biggest fear, but it's the thing I feel I need to conquer.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Writing
  • Fear
  • Singing

• I think people should know more of Africa in terms of its joie de vivre, its feeling for life. In spite of the images that one knows about Africa - the economic poverty, the corruption - there's a joy to living and a happiness in community, living together, in community life, which may be missing here in America.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • People
  • Life
  • May

• I've never, ever done a piece of work - and can't imagine doing a piece of work - when I've thought, 'I was pretty perfect in that.'

  

  Natasha Little
  • Work
  • Done
  • Pretty

• Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.

  

  Adam Clayton U2
  • Man
  • Belief
  • Equality

• I only judge people in one way. I like them or I don't. But I don't have preconceived ideas.

  

  Carla Bruni
  • People
  • Ideas
  • Judge

• I don't wanna be Courtney Love - I wanna be Kurt Cobain.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Love
  • Wanna
  • Kurt Cobain

• visiting Jackson Pollock’s studio: You do not work from nature. This is no good, you will repeat yourself. You work by heart, not from nature. Pollock reacted: 'I am nature

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • Good
  • Work
  • Heart

• Mary Poppins herself had flown away, but the gifts she had brought would remain for always..

  

  P. L. Travers
  • She

• When women entered the workplace, many men were mentors to them and, in turn, also learned to respect women’s unique contributions (for example, their listening and facilitative skills). Now, as we give men responsibilities to care for children, women must be among the mentors, and we must also learn to respect men’s unique contributions.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Children

• Walk with me world, upon my right hand walk, speak to me Babel, that I may strive to assemble of all these syllables a single word before the purpose of speech is gone.

  

  Conrad Aiken
  • World
  • May
  • Single

• I think your subconscious knows far more than your conscious, so I trust it. I just make it first and then it becomes much clearer to me why.

  

  Cornelia Parker
  • Why
  • Trust

• When How Green Was My Valley finally wrapped, I thought John Ford was a walking god.

  

  Maureen O'Hara
  • God
  • Walking
  • Green

• The difference between doing a remix and an original track is that when you do a remix, you obviously already have the original track as a starting point. But with the originals you start from scratch.

  

  Kygo

• One out of forty American men wears women's clothing. We've had more than forty presidents. One of these guys has been dancing around the Oval Office in a prom dress.

  

  Allison Janney
  • Men
  • Women
  • American

• If a joke makes our tribe laugh, we assume it will make other friend-tribes laugh.

  

  Jay Chandrasekhar
  • Friend

• Artists have been very good at working for the church and for the state; communicating the aspirations of a society.

  

  Kehinde Wiley
  • Good
  • Society
  • Church

• When I am home in L.A., I love to stop by a yoga class or Soul Cycle session. There is nothing like doing some cycling in the dark to club music and candle light.

  

  Adam Rippon
  • Music
  • Home
  • Soul

• I've been a part of this before, where you think the racing gods are against you, then next thing you know, you can't do anything wrong. You're winning races and doing things you feel like you shouldn't have done that particular day. It all comes full circle in this sport. It has a funny way of doing it.

  

  Kevin Harvick
  • Done
  • Funny
  • Winning

• 'Horse thunder' is what I call the sound of galloping hooves.

  

  John Fusco
  • Horse

• Promise is most given when the least is said.

  

  George Chapman
  • Promise

• In my old age I've come to find that if you respect other people, you feel better about yourself.

  

  Bijou Phillips
  • People
  • Age
  • Respect

• I've never ducked anyone. Bernard Hopkins has beaten people that nobody else wanted to fight - Winky Wright, Antonio Tarver. I knocked out Felix Trinidad easily, Oscar de la Hoya with a body shot, I had world title 20 defences.

  

  Bernard Hopkins
  • People
  • World

• I have no permanent enemies - only people I have yet to persuade.

  

  Richard Lamm
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