Richard Parks Bland Quotes
We know well enough that if we repeal this law and give nothing for it, the people of this country will regard it as a total demonetization of silver, which it will be, so far as this Congress is concerned, without any question.
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Gay kids need to stop killing themselves because they are made to feel worthless by cruel and relentless bullying.
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When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults.
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As technology evolves, it manipulates our culture, and there's a huge opportunity to push ourselves further. I think it actually makes ourselves maybe more human, or at least human in a different way, that we can connect together in amazingly different ways and powerful new ways.
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Every artist was first an amateur.
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I was 6, and I was in the opera 'Carmen.' My dad sang opera and got me into the children's chorus. I was super fat at the time and didn't make eye contact with anyone. I knew I loved acting ever since.
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I'm not better than anyone else. I'm not supposed to be on a pedestal. I've always stayed away from that.
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A new breed of Republicans has taken over the GOP. It is a new breed which is seeking to sell to Americans a doctrine which is as old as mankind - the doctrine of racial division, the doctrine of racial prejudice, the doctrine of white supremacy.
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It is vital that Iraq and the United States together send the clearest possible signal that those who commit acts of violence against American military forces and American civilians will not be rewarded with amnesty.
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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I grew up in New York till I was 5, and I remember going to see 'Annie' and some musicals as a kid, and I remember my parents being somewhat okay with us watching 'Rocky Horror Picture Show,' which, it boggles my mind that they allowed me to watch it.
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I don't know how I got out of some of the scrapes I was in. But I know that there's some sort of plan.
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I can do a book in three months if I spend all day, seven days a week at it and, in fact, I work better that way.
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I believe in that old adage that 'as goes California, so goes the country.'
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The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.
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I'm a pretty cliche actor in that I hate watching myself on film.
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I'm sure I wouldn't have been asked to judge the Man Booker if it weren't for 'Downton.'
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If you can't find dry shampoo, baby powder is great.
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In my city of Maracay, there is a go kart circuit about five minutes from my home. When I was about three or four years old, I said I wanted to race, but I was too young; then, when I reached the age of seven, my father gave me a kart and we started from there.
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We'll go in blind and, hopefully, won't show them too much respect.
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I've been recognized very seldom. I think I just look different in person than I do as the character.
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If you ask the question of Americans, should we pay our bills? One hundred percent would say yes. There's a significant misunderstanding on the debt ceiling. People think it's authorizing new spending. The debt ceiling doesn't authorize new spending; it allows us to pay obligations already incurred.
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In the last half century we haven't had Presidential leadership that addressed this question in the broadest and most important aspect.
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We know well enough that if we repeal this law and give nothing for it, the people of this country will regard it as a total demonetization of silver, which it will be, so far as this Congress is concerned, without any question.
