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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When I was in high school in the early 1970s, we knew we were running out of oil; we knew that easy sources were being capped; we knew that diversifying would be much better; we knew that there were terrible dictators and horrible governments that we were enriching who hated us. We knew all that and we did really nothing.
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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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As a pastor, I have a deep desire to lead people to God and encourage people to pray, read the Bible, and carry their faith into every part of their lives.
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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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I'm right on the edge of getting another movie. It's between me and a famous person. The studio said they're thinking about going with somebody with a name. I said, 'That's great! Because I have one!'
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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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The stuff coming out of Silicon Valley is dorky. Like, it's not very sexy.
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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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We had defensive lapses in the second half, only not as many. It's a will. You have to want to do it. It's sticking to the principles we practice every day. Sometimes if the team comes out and does the very things you're forcing them to do and they do well, you have to give them credit.
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We used to look at each other and say, 'We play the same game with the same rules, the same bat, the same ball, the same field. What the hell does color have to do with it? You don't play with color. You play with talent.'
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For centuries, the question of men needing to comprehend women simply didn't arise. Men were valued according to how they measured up to the manly virtues.
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Even though we know freedom as an idea we're not really as free as we think we are.
