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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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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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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I yearn for that livin' large, but mama I ain't done yet/Sit back and watch your son rise, kick back and know your son set
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Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality.
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In my books, my idea is always to explore social context and social forces.
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Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
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Children are wonderfully confident in their own imaginations. Most of us lose this confidence as we grow up.
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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.
