Richard Matheson Quotes
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I love Ray Mears. He's brilliant. He's so rude about me in the press, it's outrageous!
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Disrespect toward Jesus, as we have seen all too often in our society, is very offensive to Muslims.
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Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.
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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
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'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present - who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills, or it won't work.
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I love to learn, and at some level, there's something to learn from my books. And I love art and philosophy, so there's something philosophical about my fiction.
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It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.
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I always say, I'm certain I changed 'Watchmen' less than the Coen brothers changed 'No Country for Old Men.' I'm certain of it. But you don't hear the Cormac McCarthy fans, like, up in arms about it. They should be. It's like an amazing Pulitzer Prize-winning book.
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Whether you're a Democrat or Republican, I want everyone to know that I'm here. We'll talk; we'll visit.
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The checks and balances is a way to prevent government from either devolving into an autocratic tyranny or an autocratic mob mentality.
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It's getting worse under Prime Minister Modi. The economic miracle has failed, to a degree, and people are reaching back to a kind of imagined Hindu past for a feeling of pride. And that feeling of pride necessarily comes from denying any kind of Muslim heritage. People my age seem to be becoming illiberal in a way that I'm surprised by.
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We're not handling things anymore before they arrive on our doorstep. I like to feel how thin porcelain can be, run my hand over a textile, see if I want to sit in a chair.
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Tempus edax rerum.
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Nothing is more certain than death and nothing uncertain but its hour.
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Ὅρκοις τὰ μὴ δίκαια μὴ νικᾶν λέγω.
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The story of the Internet is this incredibly strong, exciting change.
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When everyone agrees to a single solution and a single plan, there's nothing more efficient in the world than an efficient democracy.
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I am no longer in pictures for money. I am in them because I love them. I am not in vain. I do not care about giving a smashing personal performance. My one ambition is to create fine entertainment.
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exploited every instrument of the state to distort the electoral process.
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When we encounter suffering, it is important to respond w/ compassion rather than to question the politics of those we help.
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Whatever God or whatever higher power you believe in, they brought us to this earth in a perfect way, and you have to learn to love yourself. Otherwise, it's an exhausting way to be.
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For my part, I believe that the vain, glorious and the violent will not inherit the earth. . . . In pursuance of that faith my friends and I take the hands of the dying in our hands. And some of us travel to the Pentagon, and others live in the Bowery and serve there, and others speak unpopularly and plainly of the fate of the unborn and of convicted criminals. It is all one.
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All of us have a path to follow and the path begins on earth.
