Richard Matheson Quotes
…They think of suicide as a quick route to oblivion, an escape. Far from it. It merely alters a person from one form to another. Nothing can destroy the spirit. Suicide only precipitates a darker continuation of the same conditions from which escape was sought. A condition under circumstances so much more painful.
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The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.
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I'm always thinking of stuff; I just don't sit down and write it. I come up with material more as I go along; if something funny happens, I'll make a note of it on my phone.
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I traveled a full two years with 'Language of Flowers.'
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Reason cannot calm the storm of emotion, and emotion usually wins, until it settles down and allows reason to rise again and apologize on behalf of it.
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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
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I was always a writer – working on campaigns was never a profession for me. It was something I did on the side, really, so the trajectory hasn't been a political operative who likes to dabble in writing and finds himself into stumbling on film and TV – that was always my goal.
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I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.
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Antidepressants are very good, but it's a clinical cosh, really. Sometimes you have to be knocked out, just to stop; when you're in that state all you want to do is just sleep, and rest your body and your brain.
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'I hear you are going to In-jea. A most interesting country. I had a very good time there in my early youth. You must do the pig-sticking in Rajasthan. And you will find the people most agreeable in their own way. They have been most uncommonly decent to my niece.' (Galbraith, Ambassador’s Journal, 36)
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We’re building what’s called a private cloud for them the C.I.A., … because they don’t want to be on the public cloud.
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I was a drummer and I played the guitar.
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I'm a perfectionist, so my bossiness definitely comes out.
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I didn't go to university or get a degree, but I hired somebody as a mentor - and that I considered my university education.
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I definitely want to manage. I just don't think it's the time right now.
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I literally worked from the bottom up to where I am now.
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The war against British rule must continue until freedom is achieved.
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I love things that have one foot in history - I was going to be a history professor before I sold out and went into TV.
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I grew up 45 minutes outside of Chicago.
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Geometry in every proposition speaks a language which experience never dares to utter; and indeed of which she but halfway comprehends the meaning.
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Success is seldom permanent, and failure is seldom fatal. The important thing is to keep trying.
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We must realize that violence is not confined to physical violence. Fear is violence, caste discrimination is violence, exploitation of others, however subtle, is violence, segregation is violence, thinking ill of others and condemning others are violence. In order to reduce individual acts of physical violence, we must work to eliminate violence at all levels, mental, verbal, personal, and social, including violence to animals, plants, and all other forms of life.
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Getting to communicate with many people through our shows was just great in itself and I felt a lot of energy. I think I learned what love is through our concert.
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…They think of suicide as a quick route to oblivion, an escape. Far from it. It merely alters a person from one form to another. Nothing can destroy the spirit. Suicide only precipitates a darker continuation of the same conditions from which escape was sought. A condition under circumstances so much more painful.
