Rich Mullins (Richard Wayne Mullins) Quotes
If your life is motivated by your ambition to leave a legacy, what you'll probably leave as a legacy is ambition.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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We have such little mystery in our lives generally because of how we live now. I mean, of course, mystery is all around us, but the way we live our lives now, we're too busy to be bothered with it.
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One of the banners I would put up in front of any American president and new administration is 'Do not overreact to your predecessors' policies.'
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The great thing about America is I've never felt like an outsider. I'm just a different piece of the puzzle.
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Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.
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The longer I live the more convinced I become that one of the greatest honors we can confer on other people is to see them as they are, to recognize not only that they exist, but that they exist in specific ways and have specific realities.
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The great thing about Gospel is that you don't have to have an album every year in order to keep working.
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In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
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I use more makeup now then I did before. I didn't use to wear really that much, and I didn't know how to do makeup, but now I know how to do it a bit more. I can do eyes and makeup in general more. I do like my own lipstick as well.
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All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives.
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It costs a great deal of money to do a musical, and the more money involved, the more big business influences the artform.
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Free and fair access to books - to reading - is a right and one we should fight for.
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I put down the camera long ago, you know? I was here in London, aged 19, and I was obsessed with my camera, shooting everything I could. Then someone stole it. It helped me to see things for the first time.
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Early in my career, I sometimes found it difficult to make the tough people decisions - I had to learn that. In business, you want to listen. You want to learn. You want to make sure you're not proceeding without information. But if you wait too long, you can actually hurt an organization even more.
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There is no way you can get people to believe you on screen if they know who you really are through television.
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Siberia is a state of mind.
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I was a total fashion insider who became an outsider when I did bridal.
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For most of my 20s, I looked like I was 12. Now that I'm pushing 40, I guess I look closer to... 15? It must be my macrobiotic diet. Oh, wait, except that I don't have one of those.
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Here in L.A., you kind of get stuck in your own little dilemmas and your own little life, and hearing a story like Pocahontas' reminds you there's a bigger world out there, and there are so many more important things in life.
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I actually hated dancing. My mum used to have to bribe me to go by buying me things. A year before I stopped going, I was going to go for an audition with the Royal Ballet. It turned out I was a year too young. Because I was tall, they thought I was older. But before I had the chance to go back, I quit.
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If only I'd known my differentness would be an asset, then my earlier life would have been much easier.
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This is the biggest win of my life.
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Serving jury duty is a fascinating little slice of life, with its motley crew of personalities.
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If your life is motivated by your ambition to leave a legacy, what you'll probably leave as a legacy is ambition.
