Richard Adams Quotes
We are all human and fall short of where we need to be. We must never stop trying to be the best we can be.
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A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased.
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What matters in literature in the end is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor or the color of a particular human suffering.
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I have pictures of me sitting in the racquetball court in my pajamas with an acoustic guitar, and Wolfgang is probably just two-and-a-half-feet tall. I'll never forget the day I saw his foot tapping along in beat! I knew then, I couldn't wait for the day I'd be able to make music with my son. I don't know what more I could ask for.
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I still owe a duty of loyalty to my clients and former clients, so I cannot specify which clients I did not especially find congenial, but the cause was the same.
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Filipinos are not worse than any other colonized people except that our colonization was a little longer, and the independence movement was always dictated in political terms, never in social ones. We borrowed terms, but we didn't understand them.
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Daring is not safe against daring men.
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I have always believed that astrophysics should be the extrapolation of laboratory physics, that we must begin from the present universe and work our way backward to progressively more remote and uncertain epochs.
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High school golf, college golf and the decade that followed all come back to me now as one big raucous, goofy gangsome.
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I'm really sarcastic. Not Morgan Webb sarcastic. She's dry, 100%. I'm different from her.
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It is certain that if you would have the whole secret of a people, you must enter into the intimacy of their religion.
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I think I'll die underrated, but it's alright, man.
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I had my first real kiss at Magic Mountain on a park bench. Not the most romantic thing ever.
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They could hardly believe it, the retreating arses of all that Mameluke or Turkish cavalry, heathen anyway, crying heathen words as they cantered off in gunsnioke and dust-clouds, dropping spears and jewels and good Birmingham pistols. And soon it was water water water, a world of blessed water, the muddy stinking welcoming mother Nile near Rahmaniya.
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Quien ha visto vaciarse todo, casi sabe de qué se llena todo.
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I loved 'The Pitts.' I just loved it.
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Doing shows is always a side of skating that I've loved, it's the performing. I get to do that without the pressure, it's always fun between the skaters and the preparation, the show is always so much fun.
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There's something so delicious about holding onto a secret; it's something just for you.
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People ask why there are so few female artists who succeed. It's because women are not ready to sacrifice as much as men. Women want a man, they want a family, they want to have children, they want to be loved, and to be an artist. And they can't; it's impossible.
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I wish they would remember that the charge to Peter was "Feed my sheep", not "Try experiments on my rats", or even "Teach my performing dogs new tricks".
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The whole point of science fiction is that you explore the effect of ideas on a society.
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I remember Mick Jagger asking me 'hey, how do you guys feel about us coming over here and taking all the play from you guys?' I said 'Well, in a way, you have eliminated all my competition.
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I fantasized being a broadcaster.
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Practically all the prominent leaders of thought in China today are openly agnostics and even atheists.
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We are all human and fall short of where we need to be. We must never stop trying to be the best we can be.
