Richard O'Brien Quotes
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Don't let the Disney princess hair fool you.
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Even now, at 82 years old, if I don't learn something every day, you know what I think? It's a day lost. Now, I don't practice every day. I just take the guitar, swear at it. But I should be swearing at myself. But I fool with music. I'm doing something musically all the time. And my ears are wide open for anything I can hear.
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Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
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80 percent of our global fish stocks are fully exploited, overly exploited or have collapsed. Two billion people rely on the oceans for their primary source of protein.
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That wasn't a bad price for a first book. My agent upped it as much as possible. I was 27 and had nothing behind me. I was working like a fool to earn a living and pay for my apartment.
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A man is a golden impossibility. The line he must walk is a hair's breadth. The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.
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The fool generalizes the particular; the nerd particularizes the general; ... the wise does neither.
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I want to reach people and express myself. You have to put up with the risk of being misunderstood if you are going to try to communicate. You have to put up with people projecting their own ideas, attitudes, misunderstanding you. But it's worth being a public fool if that's all you can be in order to communicate yourself.
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Let the world call me a fool,But if things are right with me and you,That's all that matters.And I'll do anything you asked me to.
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When you consider socialism, do not fool yourself about its nature. Remember that there is no such dichotomy as 'human rights' versus 'property rights.' No human rights can exist without property rights.
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After I wrote Handmaid’s Tale, people came up to me and asked why weren’t there any protests. And I said, 'You don’t understand totalitarianism.' A real totalitarianism doesn’t fool around with protests in the streets.
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I wish I didn't know now what I didn't know thenI wish I could start this whole thing over againI'm not sayin' it's you could never be trueI just don't wanna know how it endsYou'd still have my heart in the palm of your handsI'd still look like a fool in front of your friendsYeah I wish somehow I didn't know now what I didn't know then.
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The man who has everything figured out is probably a fool.
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I've learned any fool can write a bad ad, but it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one.
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I am a romantic fool, no doubt about that.
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It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
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If you are prepared to make a fool of yourself for them then you usually get that back. I think that there are points where you become so close to an actor, you know them so well, almost as well or better than their spouse. You have to know them, warts and all.
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April Fool is widely considered one of the top yachts ever built by Feadship, the famed Dutch shipyard. Launched in 2006, April Fool has a huge master stateroom, a Jacuzzi on the fourth-level sun deck, a sauna, and sprawling outdoor dining lounge. The yacht first came onto the market in 2011 with a price of $69.5 million.
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'Bye-bye,' Auntie cooed, and waved a tattered wing. 'Bye-bye, 12-8, you fool!'
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The character which results from wealth is that of a prosperous fool.
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I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.
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I was the core of the universe, as we always are to ourselves.
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Hope lies in having more faith in the power of God to heal us than in the power of anything to hurt or destroy us. In realizing that as children of God we are bigger than our problems, we have the power at last to confront them.
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He who quotes himself has a fool for a source.
