Richard Parks Bland Quotes
What is the effect of unlimited coinage of silver in this country? and I invite your attention to this particularly, because it is a question of vital importance.
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People always say, 'You look like Iggy Pop.'
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The other aspect of American identity worth focusing on is the concept of America as a nation of immigrants. That certainly is a partial truth. But it is often assumed to be the total truth.
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I cry at random things, like a flower, or someone giving me a present, or my sister giving me a nice hug.
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Sometimes some of these little side excursions are useful and I manage to fit them in the book somewhere.
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I'm really happy that I was raised Catholic because it's given me years of material.
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The distinctive feature of my family was intolerance of sensitivity and emotion - 'Everything's great, it all has to be great all the time and why do you have to spoil it?' Whereas probably the most fundamental and important thing to me has been defending my right to tell the truth about how I feel.
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If your character doesn't express himself or doesn't feel confident expressing himself, then you don't express yourself.
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People say that knowledge is power. The more knowledge, the more power. Which makes you just about the most powerful person on earth. When it comes to killing people. And then getting away with it.
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All the proliferating falsifications of what I and everyone I know experienced once in what it is now so convenient to call the 'fifties' or 'sixties,' as if life was really measured or lived in arbitrary decades, when the history books are sold like comix.
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Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
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It's the easiest thing in the world to be down about anything. I think the body responds to good vibes.
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It was actually my partner, Bernard Edwards, who helped me develop my sort of funky jazz style.
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Today, our attention is less than the television advertisement. We're looking at six or seven problems constantly. We're living in the disturbed societies of cities. I think modern technology is one of the worst things human beings have invented.
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I had a beautiful childhood and a lovely childhood. I just didn't like being a child. I didn't like the rank injustice of not being listened to. I didn't like the lack of autonomy.
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I'm often asked what I think about the faith of the President George W. Bush. I think it is sincere. I think it's very real. I think it's deeply held.
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Do we root for Michael Corleone in the 'Godfather' films? I think so, even if he is a monster.
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Uniformity is the friend of scalability.
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You really can have your dreams and at the same time have a family. But it has to be a really deliberate practice.
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The diet, to be healthy, has to be mostly fruits, vegetables, beans, nuts and seeds.
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I can think about what [Mahatma] Gandhi said or [Martin Luther] King said about violence begetting violence, and still be true to my job by asking myself the question whenever we're confronted with a situation where some may be arguing for military action: Will this actually result in America being safer, or the most lives being saved?
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What is the effect of unlimited coinage of silver in this country? and I invite your attention to this particularly, because it is a question of vital importance.
