Richard Matheson Quotes
Normalcy was a majority concept, the standard of many and not the standard of just one man.
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I did what I could to inflate the rumor I was on my way to stardom. What I was on my way to, by any mathematical standards known to man, was oblivion, by way of obscurity.
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Nothing is sadder than having worldly standards without worldly means.
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I plan to eliminate the equity cap in investment, and I also plan large-scale deregulation to meet global standards.
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The performances of others are often selected as standards for self-improvement of abilities.
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I'm horrible at concepts. My life is random and my inspiration is random. But it's all written in a very specific time frame that says a lot about my life at the time.
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Middle-income living standards, and poverty for that matter, are best addressed through employment growth. By maintaining low inflation and low expectations of inflation, you can create new employment.
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The standards for ballot access in New York State apply equally to all candidates seeking a given political nomination, ... In other words, all similarly situated are treated equally.
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Debbie was accused of being too overtly sexual and now the standards are different. Times have changed.
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I made straight A's and never got into any trouble, and I still impose those standards on myself. So writing is my chance to escape and become the sleaziest, scummiest role.
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The only justification for our concepts and systems of concepts is that they serve to represent the complex of our experiences; beyond this they have not legitimacy.
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What distinguishes the language of science from language as we ordinarily understand the word? ... What science strives for is an utmost acuteness and clarity of concepts as regards their mutual relation and their correspondence to sensory data.
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When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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The higher the standard of education in a profession, the less marked will be the charlatanism.
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The recommended daily allowances are based on arbitrary, unscientific, and tainted standards.
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Keep your heel, head and standards high.
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If you want to create something that's worth doing you have to self-edit from the get-go. You really must be careful and selective with whom you work, you must constantly ask yourself the hard questions about your art, and you must set a nearly unattainable standard for yourself.
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Set high standards for yourself and don't settle for anything less. You are the best judge of yourself and your capabilities.
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Who you spend time with is who you become! Change your life by consciously choosing to surround yourself with people with higher standards!
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It's the same thing,' I told her. 'What is?' 'Being afraid and being alive.' 'No,' she said slowly, and now it was as if she was speaking a language she knew at first I wouldn't understand, the very words, not to mention the concept, being foreign to me. 'Macy, no. It's not.
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I think it's a very valuable thing for a doctor to learn how to do research, to learn how to approach research, something there isn't time to teach them in medical school. They don't really learn how to approach a problem, and yet diagnosis is a problem; and I think that year spent in research is extremely valuable to them.
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If a man wishes to become a hero, then the serpent must first become a dragon: otherwise he lacks his proper enemy.
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On just a personal level, since I was little, I've loved fairytales, especially this one, because it is about what goes into making a beast a beast. Do you start as a beast? Do you turn into a beast because of the way that people treat you? I think it's something that is really universal and hit a chord with me when I was little, and so, hopefully we can explore some of that.
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Normalcy was a majority concept, the standard of many and not the standard of just one man.
