Richard MacDonald Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
A rolling stone gathers no moss, but it gains a certain polish.
-
You have family-owned businesses that have been around for 500 years. You cannot name a corporation that survives intact for even a few decades.
-
I like being a mother. For some people, it's so much work that it can be a burden. But it's not for me, maybe because I had my daughter, Valentina, later on in life, at 41.
-
I never went to stage school or anything like that. It was always plays, productions at school and things like that. The thing for me with acting was it was the only thing I could fully concentrate on. I loved playing sports. I didn't really love studying.
-
Being confident in your own skin is very sexy. I think when you have fun and are yourself that is sexy too.
-
I thought it must be desperate to be old. To wake up in the morning and remember that you were ancient - and so behave that way. I thought old people were full of aches and pains and horrible illnesses.
-
I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.
-
I read a very romantic book when I was young, when I was in college: Rilke's 'Letters to a Young Poet.' And I've always felt that if you are in any kind of an artistic, creative endeavor, and you feel there's something else you can do for a living and be happy, I think you should do something else.
-
There is no way to undo what happened in the Zimmerman-Martin encounter, but some good can still come of it: it could lead states to repeal their misguided 'Stand your ground' laws.
-
We had to be very careful on our best behaviour when we went to these other countries. And then I made a living, I had a chance to support my wife and my kids. It was a wonderful, wonderful, wonderful program from that point of view.
-
I think the real needs in the country are for cultural renewal.
-
The biological evolutionary perception of life and of human qualities is radically different from that of traditional religion, whether it's Southern Baptist or Islam or any religion that believes in a supernatural supervalance over humanity.
-
I was brought up in Florence, a beautiful medieval town whose rhythm is completely in antiquity.
-
That's the ideal. Not to get stuck in a rut playing the same role.
-
When I left I got an award for being the latest person in the history of the school. If you got three late marks for being over fifteen minutes late you’d get an after school detention. I got something like 257 marks. And I only lived about ten minutes away.
-
Sarbanes-Oxley costs the American people money. It costs jobs. It costs our competitiveness. It hurts our markets.
-
With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head, And every flower that sad embroidery wears.
-
I do think that one needs to have respect for people who are older. And I really do love the idea that one can respect generations.
-
We are renters and borrowers and, in the end, only thieves.
-
The sluices of the grog-shop are fed from the wine-glasses in the parlor, and there is a lineal descent from the gentleman who hiccoughs at his elegant dinner-table to the sot who makes a bed of the gutter.
-
In video you are starting with nothing but a black screen. There's no game there. With pinball you at least start with that basic concept, but not with video. The challenge of going from no game to something today is only different because you have to create something so damn fun people will pay $1.00 every two minutes to play it.
-
I'm always looking for the next challenge.