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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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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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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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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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.
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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.
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Broadway's not what it used to be.
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'Sucker Punch' was so demanding, it scared me a bit.
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I think the value of venues like CNBC is that they give investors an opportunity to reevaluate the situation minute by minute, but maybe we don't need to follow the market so closely.
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We should be building more nuclear today.
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Presenting the Oscars was the most nerve-racking job I have ever done in show business. It's very much a live show: they have comedy writers waiting in the wings, and as you come off between presentations, they hand you an appropriate gag to tell.
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Hence, within the space of two generations there has been a complete revolution in the attitude of the trades-unions toward the women working in their trades.
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The problem of the world today is the people talk on and on about democracy, freedom, justice. But I don't give a damn about democracy if I am worried about survival.
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For centuries, America has led the world on a long march toward freedom and democracy. Let's reclaim our clean energy leadership and lead the world toward clean energy independence.
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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.
