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.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • American
  • House
  • Looks

• 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.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Live
  • Mystery
  • Busy

• 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.'

  

  Jack Keane
  • Up
  • American
  • President

• The great thing about America is I've never felt like an outsider. I'm just a different piece of the puzzle.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Great
  • Different
  • America

• Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Good
  • Never
  • Become

• 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.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • People
  • Live
  • Greatest

• The great thing about Gospel is that you don't have to have an album every year in order to keep working.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • Great
  • You
  • Year

• In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Death
  • Try
  • Escape

• 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.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Eyes
  • Makeup
  • Lipstick

• 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.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
  • Great
  • Today
  • Old

• It costs a great deal of money to do a musical, and the more money involved, the more big business influences the artform.

  

  Hal Price
  • Great
  • Money
  • Business

• Free and fair access to books - to reading - is a right and one we should fight for.

  

  Kate Mosse
  • Free
  • Reading
  • Fight

• 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.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Time
  • Camera
  • Obsessed

• 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.

  

  Laura Lang
  • People
  • Long
  • Business

• There is no way you can get people to believe you on screen if they know who you really are through television.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • People
  • Believe
  • Television

• Siberia is a state of mind.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Mind
  • State
  • Siberia

• 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.

  

  Gabriel Mann
  • Look
  • Wait
  • Diet

• Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Justice
  • Opinion
  • Liberty

• I always have to be thinking about who's going to be singing this song, what the context is. I don't sit around just writing in a vacuum, ever.

  

  Adam Schlesinger
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Song

• You can't expect to be on MTV and critique George Bush. You can't expect to be on BET or the cover of 'The Source' advocating Jesus Christ or Buddha or Hindu Krishna or Moses. As a conscious rap artist, you have to play in the arena that you're supposed to be in. What is that arena? That arena is the college market. The conscious rap artist woos the college market, even though the college market is the wildest, most sexed-out, drug-driven market in the country, possibly the world.

  

  Lawrence "Kris" Parker Boogie Down Productions
  • Country
  • College
  • Jesus

• It costs a great deal of money to do a musical, and the more money involved, the more big business influences the artform.

  

  Hal Price
  • Great
  • Money
  • Business

• I've always challenged myself and the people who work with me to take new approaches to traditional business challenges, to push the envelope and constantly ask whether our sacred cows are still producing great milk.

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• If your life is motivated by your ambition to leave a legacy, what you'll probably leave as a legacy is ambition.

  

  Rich Mullins
  • Life
  • Ambition
  • Legacy