Rich Sommer Quotes
My only foray into anything stock-market-related was in my eighth grade social studies class. I have steered clear ever since.
Quotes to Explore
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My style's not for everyone - I'm an extremist.
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Men get laid, but women get screwed.
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I used to say, 'There is a God-shaped hole in me.' For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now I find it is the shape which has become more important.
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Meditation on inevitable death should be performed daily. Every day one should meditate on being carried away by surging waves, falling from thousand-foot cliffs, dying of disease.
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I try not to second-guess editors; they're the clients, and I have no expectation that my strip is going to make it into every paper every day.
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I have friends who have a CD mastering plant in Hollywood and they are very sceptical about European record labels' understanding of digital technology.
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There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.
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I'm not Carl Lewis the athlete any more. I'm growing into a new person with new interests and new goals.
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A lot of people in line at the grocery store think that they know me, but they don't.
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I like to frequent antiques shops and flea markets like the Rose Bowl in Pasadena.
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I increasingly see organized religion as actually my enemy. They treat me as their enemy. Not all Christians, of course. Not all Jews, not all Muslims.
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My mother said I would have more chances to become a tennis player than a football player.
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The U.K. crowds always have a lot of energy, and I've done some milestone shows there that I'm very proud of.
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Companies the size of PepsiCo is like running a little republic, there is no question about it. The only difference is that I don't have to worry about the media hounding me every day, on every word that I say. I have a board of directors that runs the country in the interest of the stake holders.
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I respect the people who buy my records and come to my concerts. It's only fair that I always try to give them the very best that's in me. After all, I need them more than they need me.
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It's so easy for us to misperceive and see the things in others that we want to see. And, when we're wrong, and often we're dead wrong, we miss the truth.
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Son, this is the only time I'm ever gonna say this. It is not okay to lose.
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Maybe solitude is best had in the midst of multitudes.
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Giving more to women will, to some extent, come at the expense of men. People sometimes try to sweep that under the rug by saying you will create so much additional resources that everyone will be better off. I don't think that's true.
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I like to do my own make-up.
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I wholeheartedly rejected anything remotely feminine but was not enthusiastic about anything masculine, either. I did not want to cook and have babies, and I did not want to be an engineer or a baseball player or a soldier or a politician or any of the myriad careers open mostly or solely to men. I wanted to be a poet.
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There is something fundamentally wrong with the way we normally live our lives and we'd sort of like to find out what it is.
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My only foray into anything stock-market-related was in my eighth grade social studies class. I have steered clear ever since.
