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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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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Learning (Shakespeare's plays) ...in school was a bit of a bore.
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Chairman Mao once said that political power comes from the barrel of a gun. He was only partly right: power that comes from the barrel of a gun can be effective only for a short time. In the end, peoples love for truth, justice, freedom, and democracy will triumph. No matter what governments do, the human spirit will always prevail.
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Even though some of the films I've made haven't been particularly commercial, I don't find them failures.
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It's a coincidence that most of the films I have done are to do with social causes.
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It is enough to have been created, to have embodied for a moment the infinite and tumultuously creative spirit. It is infinitely more than enough to have been used, to have been the rough sketch for some perfected creation. Looking into the future, I saw without sorrow, rather with quiet interest, my own decline and fall.
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To say that a thing is beautiful is simply an act of faith, not a measurement on some kind of scale.
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Once you start compromising your thoughts, you're a candidate for mediocrity.
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You cannot solve current problems with current thinking. Current problems are the result of current thinking.
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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.
