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.
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Before I got into stand-up, I used to be a hip-hop dancer in a crew, and my name was J. Smoove, and my partner was J. Groove.
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If you have ever driven around London and seen the amount of one way systems... they basically rubbed out all car chase crime. In fact, if you get bank robberies in the U.K., they're using scooters.
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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 no longer counts as remarkable that Egyptians organized their uprising on social media.
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What the world, social and political, concrete and mental, really needs is not new things, but the old things made new.
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Las Vegas is a city of kickbacks. A desert city of greased palms. A place where a $20 bill can buy approval, a $100 bill adulation and $1,000 canonization.
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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.
