Richard O'Brien Quotes
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I said yes, which turned out to be the right answer.
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Brands mature over time, like a marriage. The bond you feel with your spouse is different than when you first met each other. Excitement and discovery are replaced by comfort and depth.
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A friend is someone who will allow me to be a really bad friend and not hold it against me.
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My music is best understood by children and animals.
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I hope that none of the countries in the Middle East are planning anything but the peaceful utilization of nuclear energy.
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I can imagine the writers of China, England and France, crippled and unsure of themselves when they feel that the ghosts of Confucius, Mencius, Chaucer and Shakespeare and Victor Hugo are looking over their shoulders.
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I do not watch horror films. At all. I am not a horror film girl; I don't have the stomach for it. I've seen a few in my lifetime, like 'The Shining' or 'Carrie,' but I can't sleep for, like, a week after I see something like that.
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Like the winds that we come we know not whence and blow whither soever they list, the forces of society are derived from an obscure and distant origin. They arise before the date of philosophy, from the instincts, not the speculations of men.
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I studied fashion at the London College of Fashion. I get involved in it as part of my own styling, so if I wasn't a pop star maybe a fashion buyer or a stylist.
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Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.
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My scientific pursuits have led to many opportunities and responsibilities beyond those of simply doing research. For example, as a beginning graduate student, it never occurred to me that the life of a scientist could involve so much travel, something that I have always loved.
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Reading isn't good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn't hit home runs. So I gave up reading.
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Discontent is the want of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will.
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If I lose my job at a furniture factory where I've worked for decades, no amount of cheaper toys and raincoats at Wal-Mart is going to make me whole again.
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I wanna be your t-shirt when it's wet, I wanna be your shower when you sweat.
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He was our Jackie Robinson, ... He wanted to make sure you had a place to live, that you were getting food to eat. Some guys, they only learned enough English to order one thing. He wanted to make sure you had money. If you didn't have money for something, he would give it to you.
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A portrait, to be a work of art, neither must nor may resemble the sitter... one must paint its atmosphere.
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I have been really lucky in my career, with the diversity of it. I get to play really complex people.
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If we help those who need it there will be love everywhere.
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See fantasy is what people want, but reality is what they need. And I just retired from the fantasy part.
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If you're the leader, you've got to give up your omniscient and omnipotent fantasies - that you know and must do everything. Learn how to abandon your ego to the talents of others.
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I absolutely adore working in the realms of fantasy.
