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.
Quotes to Explore
-
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.
-
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.
-
Reason cannot calm the storm of emotion, and emotion usually wins, until it settles down and allows reason to rise again and apologize on behalf of it.
-
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.
-
I've actually had a copilot come out of the cockpit on a trip from L.A. to New York and ask me about Charles Manson.
-
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.
-
I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.
-
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.
-
Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.
-
It takes people being alone in front of the computer at three in the morning to write opinions about movies, apparently.
-
It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
-
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.
-
One thing changes every evening: It's the audience, and I'm working my magic. I'm always learning from it.
-
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.
-
I was a star in England, but I've never been a star in America. Now I am.
-
My life changed because Bruce Springsteen got on a mic in front of me.
-
When you play the 12-string guitar, you spend half your life tuning the instrument and the other half playing it out of tune.
-
Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.
-
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?'
-
I like to train in my Muay Thai gym that I co-own.
-
With my family, I'm trying to raise them to have respect for all people and make friends around the world and feel at home with the world and really live a truly global life because I think it's what forms them and it's really important to me.
-
Everything that's coming into your life, you are attracting into your life. And it's attracted to you by virtue of the images you're holding in your mind. It's what you're thinking. Whatever is going on in your mind you are attracting to you!
-
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.
