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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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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I'd wear flip-flops and jeans. I guess that's not cool.
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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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I'm not scared of beauty, but if you fall in love with a beautiful man, it's not easy. It's easier to be in love with an ugly man. Beauty has a kind of power.
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You can change yourself and you can change the situation but you absolutely cannot change other people. Only they can do that.
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The definition of swagger, in my opinion, is you have to have that arrogance, that confidence that you are the best out there at all times.
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He liked to think that Heaven was what each person wanted it to be. He could see no future in lying around on a fluffy white cloud and listening to somebody playing on a harp, a picture of Heaven he had seen numerous times in one form or another. Even if it was that way, his personal preference would have run more to the fiddle.
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So much of a stand-up's life is doing live radio and having to be funny and quick on the spot with these strangers, and sort of surgical in terms of how funny I can be in three minutes.
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I think a poet's focus is not quite what a prose writer's is, it's not entirely on the world outside. It's fixed on the area where the inside meets the outside, where the poet's sensibility meets the weather, meets the street, meets other people... that shadow land between self and reality.
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We all have to meet our match sometime or other.
