Richard Lamm Quotes
I think that retiring the baby boomers is going to be one of the great challenges in America, that you cannot make fiscal sense out of the future of our children without taking on entitlements.
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I would love to direct one day. I value the relationship that I have with a director so much, and I would be really excited to be on the other end of that relationship.
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People are wired for lots of things. We're wired for novelty. We're wired for humor. We're wired for new pieces of information that surprise us in some way or add value to our lives. We're wired for fear.
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I always write with music. It takes me a while to figure out the right piece of music for what I'm working on. Once I figure it out, that's the only thing I'll play.
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They have all different names for music. I think the music I'm going to change the style with is going to be really, really big-years and years after I'm gone.
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I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.
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The only study that the federal government has engaged in with a vengeance is in trying to see if they can make women fertile after menopause.
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Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.
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It takes people being alone in front of the computer at three in the morning to write opinions about movies, apparently.
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It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
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I can't relax. I'm not happy unless I'm working on stuff. 'SNL' is always a huge workload, as enjoyable as it is.
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One thing changes every evening: It's the audience, and I'm working my magic. I'm always learning from it.
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I was the youngest child and really spoiled. I loved to play make-believe. I loved pretending to be all kinds of different people and it just seemed natural that I would go into acting.
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I was a star in England, but I've never been a star in America. Now I am.
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My life changed because Bruce Springsteen got on a mic in front of me.
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When you play the 12-string guitar, you spend half your life tuning the instrument and the other half playing it out of tune.
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I don't want to be 45 years old and have been a hot actor when I was 33 and have people going, 'Whatever happened to Fishburne?'
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We started MakerBot in 2009 and made a conscious decision to educate people with the possibilities they could do with 3D printing and share with people what is possible.
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I try to listen to over a hundred different songs a day. I listen to every single thing. If you're just listening to pop music, you're just gonna make pop music. I listen to Adele, Yo Yo Ma, Gucci Mane.
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Any bailout of a private company is a bad decision by our federal government. Private companies have the right to succeed, but they also should have the right to fail.
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God, his heart could be loud sometimes, loud as if it had its own will, its own logic, its own voice.
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If we abandon marriage, we abandon the family.
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Stop it. Seriously. This isn't funny.' 'You're right.' A pause. 'It's pathetic.
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Funny but, for me, the Bible was a hobby before it was a serious study. It was the thing I'd sneak off and do on the side, feeling rather guilty because I wasn't doing my real school homework or whatever... and never thinking I would make it a life's work.
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I think that retiring the baby boomers is going to be one of the great challenges in America, that you cannot make fiscal sense out of the future of our children without taking on entitlements.
