Richard Adams Quotes
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I'll never be like a Barbie girl, that's for sure.
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Mr. Trump, Americans can't afford, and don't want, to worry about the latest lawsuit filed against their president. And you're not immune from these suits once you enter the Oval Office. Anything you've done before taking office is fair game.
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I like singing as much as I like acting, and all through high school I thought I might be a Broadway singer.
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It's counterintuitive to take a long time to hire someone, but it will save you enormous amounts of time and money later. Our biggest mistakes in hiring stem from speed.
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Mountain climbing is my passion, and to empower women through my expeditions is the reason.
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All invitations must proceed from heaven perhaps; perhaps it is futile for men to initiate their own unity, they do but widen the gulfs between them by the attempt.
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Technological civilizations don’t last long. You're all right until you get a printing press. Then a race starts between technology and common sense. And maybe technology always wins.
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I'm not just looking to be famous and attach myself to famous names. I want to make history in the business in terms of creativity.
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There are pros and cons of experience. A con is that you can't look at the business with a fresh pair of eyes and as objectively as if you were a new CEO. Fire yourself on a Friday night and come in on Monday morning as if a search firm put you there as a turn-around leader. Can you be objective and make the bold change?
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There is a danger of changing too much in the search for perfection.
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There's always a certain amount of camera improvisation.
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I love my body when I'm in the best shape I can be in.
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The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved.
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More than anything, I write about what I know. The experiences that I've had in my life and that we've all had collectively, that's what we draw from.
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If you look back to a picture of me when I was 12 years old, you will probably see me in a leather jacket trying to look like Elvis!
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I'd wear flip-flops and jeans. I guess that's not cool.
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In the Netherlands - where I come from - you actually never see a pig, which is really strange, because, in a population of 16 million people, we have 12 million pigs. And well, of course, the Dutch can't eat all these pigs. They eat about one-third, and the rest is exported to all kinds of countries in Europe and the rest of the world.
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Artists realise that mathematicians have a way of looking at the world that can make them see things differently.
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I just think there is a part of your brain that is supposed to be afraid of getting old, even if you're not really.
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We cannot arrive at Shakespeare's whole dramatic way of looking at the world from his tragedies alone, as we can arrive at Milton's way of regarding things, or at Wordsworth's or at Shelley's, by examining almost any one of their important works.
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Love and serve the world through your work.
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Quite simply, I maintained contact with Sinn Fein and believed that there had to be a political, not a military, solution to the situation in Northern Ireland.
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Acting, I get to explore other people and other characters; with music, I get to express and explore myself.
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We all have to meet our match sometime or other.
