Richard Lamm Quotes
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I spend all my time right now trying to combat music retail and copyright.
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To be thrown onto the stand-up stage is an experience that you cannot fathom until you're actually there, because there's no place to go, and everyone is looking at you and you can't even see them because of the lights. And yet you have to manage to start talking and be funny on top of it.
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I'm interested in playing, not working.
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Working with Bruno Mars would be really awesome. I'm such a fan of his, and I love that he's a real artist.
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Conor McGregor is a tough competitor. He proved throughout the years in the UFC that he can fight standing up.
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Broccoli gets such a bad rap. This is perplexing to those of us who love that green, treelike, stalky vegetable.
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No one really knows who I am or where I came from in America, and there's something quite nice about that.
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I looked at Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and the boys up there thinking, I want to be that.
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I originally got into this because of a five-year-old's begrudgery of his teacher. Mrs. Lawlor cast me as a tree, and I was disgusted. I was sure I had more to offer than that. It was like, 'OK, if you want me to be set dressing, fine, I'll take it on the chin but I'll show you - I'm going to be a big actor some day.'
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Many a poor soul has had to suffer from the weight of the debts on him, finding no rest or peace after death.
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Tea does our fancy aid, Repress those vapours which the head invade, And keeps that palace of the soul serene.
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Judges who take the law into their own hands, who make up constitutional 'rights' in order to strike down laws they oppose, undermine the people's right to have their values shape public policy and define the culture.
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The truth is that at age 19, I was a teenage mother living alone with my daughter in a trailer and struggling to keep us afloat on my way to a divorce. And I knew then that I was going to have to work my way up and out of that life if I was going to give my daughter a better life and a better future, and that's what I've done.
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Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
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People always come up to me and say that my smoking is bothering them... Well, it's killing me!
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There's not enough black films out there. There's not enough Latin films, or films that have an Asian, Indian or Middle Eastern lead. The list goes on and on.
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Keeping a feminine approach is vital - men hate bossy females.
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The fact that nobody asks you to sing is not an indication that you should sing louder. This sounds obvious until it's applied to matters like mass transportation. There are virtually no private mass transit companies. This does not represent the failure of the market to provide a needed service, it represents the failure of an unneeded service to go away!
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I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.
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Every day in America, African Americans are reminded of their race in ways large and small. Every day.
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We do high heels, and people know us for that, but the idea of wearing a flat from day to night feels special.
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There is a whole industry in America of people who want to write, and those who teach it. Even if the students don't end up writing, what's good about them taking the courses is, they become great readers, learning to appreciate the writing.
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People are not used to seeing an older woman on screen, unless she's playing a character role. Why can't they make a movie about a woman who's forty-five who's falling in love or getting divorced? Why does the leading role always have to be a woman who's twenty-three or twenty-eight?
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Employers love cheap labor, but a country should train its own people.
