Richard Lamm Quotes

Peace is neither the absence of war nor the presence of a disarmament agreement. Peace is a change of heart.

Richard Lamm

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• I'm too self-serious for a comedy.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Comedy
  • Serious
  • Too

• I enjoy passing time in my house. I'll get up, head out on the terrace, think about what to do, fool around oiling the floorboards or hanging pictures askew.

  

  Daniel Bruhl
  • Up
  • Time
  • House

• If you go through life, and you don't find the beauty in an unexpected place, then you really have a sad existence.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Life
  • Beauty
  • Sad

• Generally, you are held to a sound and that becomes your sound. That gets branded as your sound, and all the copycats start with it because the labels are looking for that sound.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Start
  • Sound
  • Looking

• I've told several writers this, and, again, I get back to it, but if you want to make God smile, tell him your plans.

  

  Vin Scully
  • God
  • Want
  • Smile

• Remember that as a teenager you are in the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear the phone is for you.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Life
  • Remember
  • Happy

• People lament that there's no roles being written for South Asian or Muslim characters. But their parents don't want their children to go into the entertainment field. You don't get it both ways.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • People
  • Children
  • Parents

• What the ten commandments set forth is a strategy. This strategy is a strategy for dominion.

  

  Gary North
  • Strategy
  • Forth

• The only thing we lack for even faster growth is more capital.

  

  Magnus Larsson
  • Growth
  • More
  • Faster

• Our Soviet writer must be guided in his world only by the need of the people, useful for the society.

  

  Vasily Grossman
  • People
  • World
  • Society

• Here's the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don't find it anywhere else.

  

  Bob Dylan
  • Music
  • Truth
  • Religious

• Who love my man, I'm a liar if I say I don't But I'll quit my man, I'm a liar if I say I wont.

  

  Eleanora Fagan
  • Liar

• I wanna thank MTV and the VMAs for choosing me to be a part of the show because, on this show, if you not an icon or upcomin' icon, you're not on the show, you know?

  

  DJ Khaled

• I love people who just started making movies - first-timers, second-timers. They take chances.

  

  Chazz Palminteri
  • People

• Oh heck yeah, I totally would love to have a Phantom Dennis in real life.

  

  Charisma Carpenter
  • Life
  • Real

• President Obama came to office proclaiming that he aims to solve problems, not hand them on to our children. Most presidents say that sort of thing.

  

  Christopher Buckley
  • Children
  • Hand

• I'm really interested in writing a piece of music that will move you, that will really move you. That is really the only reason that I'm writing music.

  

  Leo Ornstein
  • Music
  • Writing

• I don't know - the idea of a specific wine paired with a specific piece of music seems a little far-fetched to me. But maybe I just need to be opened to it.

  

  Mike D The Beastie Boys
  • Music
  • Idea
  • Wine

• As so many writers know, the experience of creating an imaginary world is closer to dreaming than it is to normal, grit-your-teeth work. It's preconscious rather than conscious. Ideas fall into your head, and the book writes you, rather than the other way around.

  

  David Ignatius
  • World
  • Work
  • Experience

• At least he went on saying this till Aslan had loaded him up with three dwarfs, one dryad, two rabbits, and a hedgehog, that steadied him a bit.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Up

• I'm not greedy. I just want one person. The world is so big and there are so many people. But I only want one.

  

  Elise Valmorbida
  • People
  • Greedy

• To know nothing is nothing, not to want to know anything likewise, but to be beyond knowing anything, to know you are beyond knowing anything, that is when peace enters in, to the soul of the incurious seeker.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Soul
  • Peace

• We're going to respond to the Gulf within 72 hours. After a disaster, if you can get people rescued within 72 hours; they are far better off as far as getting them rescued without additional injury or illness or loss of life.

  

  John Metcalf
  • Disaster
  • Illness
  • Injury

• Peace is neither the absence of war nor the presence of a disarmament agreement. Peace is a change of heart.

  

  Richard Lamm
  • Peace
  • Absence
  • Disarmament