Richard Parks Bland Quotes
Speaking as a Democrat, all my life battling for what I conceived to be Democracy, and what I conceived to be right, I am yet an American above Democracy.
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The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.
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A label's typical plan would be to put something out that's safer and get fans, and then push buttons, but my idea is to push buttons first, scare off the people who are gonna be scared off, and then the right people will like you for who you really are, and stay with you.
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I know that, as a comedian, I've made great strides because I've worked as hard as a person can work at being at least wildly amusing.
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I don't allow meat in my house or in my oven. My whole family is vegetarian - and although I've given my kids the choice to order meat at a restaurant when they reach five, they're not interested.
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Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
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Yes, exercise is the catalyst. That's what makes everything happen: your digestion, your elimination, your sex life, your skin, hair, everything about you depends on circulation. And how do you increase circulation?
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There is something so fun about scaring yourself.
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I went on iTunes and looked at versions of Christmas songs. Everyone has done them!
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I wasn't very ambitious as a child. I'm still not.
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On the molecular scale, you find it's reasonable to have a machine that does a million steps per second, a mechanical system that works at computer speeds.
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At first I didn't even realize she was pregnant. I kinda gotten used to her throwing up every time we had sex...
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She thinks she's kept me. She would have kept me better if she had let me go now.
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Since age twelve, I've felt like I'm someone else,'cause I hung my original self from the top bunk with a belt.
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Beauty is in the strangest places. A piece of garbage floating in the wind. And that beauty exists in America. It exists everywhere. You have to develop an eye for it and be able to see it.
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It seems like there's a real world for new ideas in Philly.
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We all have fundamental beliefs of one sort or another, and it is very threatening if somebody is saying they're wrong.
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Life is never going to be perfect, as much as we want it to be, and I have to lead by example.
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I was going to college on a full scholarship. I graduated summa cum laude. I was always on the dean's list. I was never a kid that started any kind of trouble.
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Greatness by nature includes a power, but not a will to power.
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The people I've respected most in the industry over the years - Paul Newman, for instance. I just loved the way he handled growing old on-screen. It's understanding that you're now basically a character actor.
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Democracy is made up of three elements. One is whether the laws support pluralistic principles. The second is whether the people take advantage of these laws. The third element is whether the peoples' wallets are thick enough to benefit from this democracy.
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Children in a third world country. That's how we spread democracy.
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Speaking as a Democrat, all my life battling for what I conceived to be Democracy, and what I conceived to be right, I am yet an American above Democracy.
