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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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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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 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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What my true addiction is is reading. I love to read. If I'd get too loaded, I couldn't remember the sentence I just read.
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Keep asking yourself, 'What kind of a company would my company be if everyone in it was just like me?'
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I remember listening to Miles Davis in the car with my dad. I had just done my Grade 5 piano exam, and I was quite cocky. I said, 'It sounds like he's played the wrong note there.' I remember the look of horror on my dad's face, and thinking, 'Wow, I have to figure out why that is not acceptable.'
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Knowledge of other people's beliefs and ways of thinking must be used to build bridges, not to create conflicts.
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If my daughter has a bad dream and wants to get into my bed, I'm a sucker for her sweet face and warm body next to mine, so I let her jump in. I should tell her to go to bed, but secretly I love it.
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It was probably my parents who inspired me most. My father was a scientist and answered my scientific questions, while my mother took me on walks and showed me birds and plants. She also took me out at night and showed me the constellations and the aurora.
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Even though we know freedom as an idea we're not really as free as we think we are.
