Richard O'Brien Quotes
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Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.
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At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.
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Kennedy had made a mess in Cuba at the Bay of Pigs. He had to do something to look good. The Apollo program of going to the Moon was quite a goal.
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I was raised in an observant Jewish household, so for me, Hebrew prayers - the sounds, the sunlight streaming in from the stained-glass windows of a synagogue - bring my father back to me as surely as if he were sitting next to me, my head pressed against his shoulder.
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The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.
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I think Bush has a very selfish, arrogant point of view. I think he is interested in power, I think he believes his truth is the only truth, and that he will do what he wants to do despite the people.
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I'm always singing and dancing and getting up in people's faces.
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I know what poverty is.
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If we cling to the institution of Islam, then we tend to defend it against whatever we see as a danger to it, so because of this we see now that many people are defending states, defending territories, defending everything institutional in the belief that they defend Islam.
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We should seek to cooperate with Europe, not to divide Europe to a fictitious new and a fictitious old.
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I wear a lot of wigs as Jacques Mesrine. He'd wear multiple wigs and take them off one at a time to rob three banks in one hour.
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I know about the sweet home. I went to school with 'em boys, what became Lynyrd Skynyrd; I knew Allen Collins, the skinny girl-beautiful guitarist. I put Allen Collins in every travel piece I do. Travel writing is harrowing, going to Bermuda with a banjo on my knee.
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For me, I've learned if I want a very stable, normal relationship, where I'll be like, 'Okay, this is nice, I know what's going to happen in a month,' it's probably better to date outside the industry. But you can't help who you fall for. It's our dating pool.
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Napster was predicating its business model on violation of copyright.
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When you make your living as a singer, you have to go where the gigs are.
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LeBron James needs to go to another team with two superstars already so he can win a championship.
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David Bowie and Boy George created a safely contained theatrical expression of gay style.
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Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.
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I'm not a supermodel. That's not what I do. What I do is music. I want my fans to feel the way I do, to know what they have to offer is just as important, more important, than what's happening on the outside.
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Sometimes a week might go by when I don't think about that game, but I don't remember when it happened last.
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My goal would be to make Frank Capra-type films about real people, how they define their reality.
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I consider biennial elections as a security that the sober, second thought of the people shall be law.
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Asthma research is a lot better and new medicines are always coming out to help young people.
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I am 58 and it's difficult for people to gauge my age.
