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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I like to practise. With every new piece, you make mistakes and you learn. So it's important to get on and have another go.
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I'm constitutionally incapable of working on planes or trains, and airports are definitely out.
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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'm not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.
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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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If you keep feeling a point that has been sharpened, the point cannot long preserve its sharpness.
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I'm a big video game fan.
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There are things I back off from trying to talk about, you know. Particularly my own work. Also, there may be things better left unsaid. At times I'd much rather talk about other (people's) work.
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Violence begets violence by whomever used. War is a dirty business and entails the use of degrading means, whoever wages it.
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You'll have to learn to control your emotions. They're new, like achild's now, bursting with passion. Never let them fade, or part of you will die. But they cal also destroy you. Hold them dear, but don't let them take hold of you.
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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.
