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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• 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.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • People
  • Plan
  • Push

• 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.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Work
  • Great
  • Know

• 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.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Family
  • Kids
  • House

• Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.

  

  Beatrix Potter
  • School
  • Never
  • Goodness

• 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?

  

  Jack LaLanne
  • Life
  • Hair
  • Sex

• I went on iTunes and looked at versions of Christmas songs. Everyone has done them!

  

  Vince Clarke Erasure
  • Done
  • Christmas
  • Everyone

• I wasn't very ambitious as a child. I'm still not.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Child
  • Very
  • Ambitious

• 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.

  

  K. Eric Drexler
  • You
  • Find
  • System

• She thinks she's kept me. She would have kept me better if she had let me go now.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • She

• Since age twelve, I've felt like I'm someone else,'cause I hung my original self from the top bunk with a belt.

  

  Eminem
  • Age

• 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.

  

  Alan Ball
  • America
  • Wind

• It seems like there's a real world for new ideas in Philly.

  

  Lucy Dacus
  • World
  • Real

• We all have fundamental beliefs of one sort or another, and it is very threatening if somebody is saying they're wrong.

  

  Jocelyn Bell Burnell

• Life is never going to be perfect, as much as we want it to be, and I have to lead by example.

  

  Patsy Kensit
  • Life
  • Perfect

• 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.

  

  Kerby Jean-Raymond
  • College

• Sarah will talk to me about someone and I don't know who she's talking about, but if she talks to my mother, the two of them will know exactly - and across several generations, too.

  

  Prince Andrew
  • She
  • Mother

• I have never done any other job. I have sung in bands since I was 15. I left school completely unqualified. I have no other training.

  

  Alison Moyet
  • School
  • Done
  • Job

• Broadway's not what it used to be.

  

  Betty Comden

• While the Internet is important for us, India is also necessary for the Internet with its 1.2 billion population.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Important
  • Internet
  • India

• I don't think there's ever been a team that ever scored more layups than that Blazers team.

  

  Jack Ramsay
  • Think
  • Team
  • More

• I think it's because we're not purists, we're open to all kinds of music. We're not afraid to take chances and we work really hard, and we gig relentlessly, we've been very active in the studio, we're active with the record labels that we have. So I think it's like a full-on assault. We've stalled in many different directions and it kept us in the limelight for so many years.

  

  Ali Shirazinia
  • Work
  • Studio
  • Active

• Make yourself comfortable in everything you do.

  

  Sammy Sosa
  • You
  • Yourself
  • Everything

• Domestically, a lot of people think Xi Jinping is becoming Mao Zedong. By giving Hong Kong democracy, people would look at them as enlightened leaders.

  

  Jimmy Lai
  • People
  • Giving
  • Democracy

• 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.

  

  Richard Parks Bland
  • Democracy
  • Above
  • Conceived