Richard O'Brien Quotes
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We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.
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If you go to India the roads are being built almost entirely with private sector money and by the private sector. If you look at many, many countries in Europe that's how they're doing it.
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Everyone knows what a curve is, until he has studied enough mathematics to become confused through the countless number of possible exceptions.
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I've always said that I benefit, as an actor, from not having the illusion of security.
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Playing and listening to music gives you a sense of fulfilment because you have to put everything in you at its disposal.
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I don't know that I could play a complete and total mess. After awhile, I think I would be like, 'No, none of that!'
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The good news was that Enterprise and the newly arrived Yorktown had attacked the Marshall and Gilbert islands. Those attacks had a great effect on morale.
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My mother has a tremendous amount of pride and self-respect. She won't take assistance from anybody.
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I always wanted to be a singer, but none of my friends thought I could sing.
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Lying rumours do not penetrate farther than our ears.
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My one thing is respect. I don't care about anything else. You should respect everyone around you - the people who work for you, peers. Be classy.
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Give tax breaks to large corporations, so that money can trickle down to the general public, in the form of extra jobs.
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I don't have to try to be perfect at everything.
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One of the best predictors of ultimate success in either sales or non-sales selling isn't natural talent or even industry expertise, but how you explain your failures and rejections.
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I went to college for one semester, and I took every subject I could, and I ended up failing. So I thought to myself, Ever since I was a kid, I've loved expression - and that's when I started thinking about acting.
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I love the luxury of the camera. The camera does so much for you. I like the secrets a camera can tell.
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'Skins' is actually a part of who I am as a person, so I was really focused on making sure the scripts and the story lines were right.
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I used to be able to do the Chinese splits, where you open your legs sideways.
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Brian Walker and David Salt have written a thoughtful and powerful book to help resource users and managers put resilience thinking into practice and aim toward increasing the sustainability of our world. I urge public officials, scholars, and students in public policy programs to place this volume on their list of must-read books. It is a powerful antidote to the overly simplified proposals too often offered as solutions to contemporary problems at multiple scales.
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I think sometimes you have to just imagine something that looks pretty impossible. By imagining something that is impossible, automatically you wish you could make it possible.
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Music is spiritual. The music business is not.
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Even though we know freedom as an idea we're not really as free as we think we are.
