Richard Platt Quotes

The Christian apologist has become someone who is virtually expected to apologize for being a Christian, and that has to stop.

Richard Platt

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• My sisters are amazing. My sister is my business partner, my twin. She's an amazing producer, writer. You know, we're just grinding and trying to make my mother proud as well as God.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • God
  • Trying
  • She

• Success demands singleness of purpose.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Success
  • Purpose
  • Demands

• Working on camera, your face is your career. But I'm not really one to buy into the pressures. At the end of the day, the job I do, it's more about the art and craft of it. If you're good at what you do, there's a place for you in the industry, no matter what you or your skin look like.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Good
  • Art
  • Job

• My mum made me feel if I wanted to become prime minister, I could do it.

  

  Hannah Ware
  • Me
  • Feel
  • Become

• To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Effort
  • Listen
  • Duck

• Rey is so strong. She's cool and smart and she can look after herself. Young girls can look at her and know that they can wear trousers if they want to. That they don't have to show off their bodies.

  

  Daisy Ridley
  • Strong
  • Smart
  • Bodies

• Without faith, I don't think I'd be here.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Think
  • Faith
  • Without

• Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Men
  • Truth
  • Small

• Winning 'American Idol' gives the opportunity to really help make a change to a lot of lives, and making a difference has given me the greatest satisfaction and joy.

  

  Taylor Hicks
  • American
  • Help
  • Opportunity

• I'm really Wallace Beery in 'The Champ.'

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Really
  • Champ
  • Wallace

• At the end of the day, we're just trying to be honest and, hopefully, get more females on the radio.

  

  Taylor Dye
  • Trying
  • Day
  • End

• I'm happy in Lululemon, with a glass of red wine, watching HGTV.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Happy
  • Red
  • Wine

• I am Classic Rock Revisited. I revisit it every waking moment of my life because it has the spirit and the attitude and the fire and the middle finger. I am Rosa Parks with a Gibson guitar.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Life
  • Rock
  • Fire

• Listen, I'm a sweet guy. I'm just intense at work. I have nothing but the end result in mind. My entire career has been like that.

  

  Maksim Chmerkovskiy
  • Work
  • Mind
  • Guy

• With every little bit of change we make in our lives, we can maximize that small change simply by asking ourselves: 'What's next? What can I do now? What additional responsibility can I take on?'

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Small
  • Change
  • Responsibility

• No, I have not a drop of what they call white blood in my veins. My father was a full blooded Negro, and my mother was a full blooded Chippewa.

  

  Edmonia Lewis
  • Mother
  • Father
  • White

• My mother played the piano and my father the violin, I can remember my dad teaching me how to waltz; I had my feet on his, my mother playing the piano, and my husband will tell you the lessons weren't very successful.

  

  Quentin Bryce
  • Remember
  • Mother
  • Father

• Remember that the fans want to hear inside stuff about the series; they don't want to hear gripes and grouses about your personal life. What they really want to hear is how the series gets made, and how you interact with your fellow cast members.

  

  Manny Coto
  • Life
  • Remember
  • Want

• It never crossed my mind to be a director, and I'll tell you why: because I'm a woman. It just didn't occur to me, but I knew I had to be in film.

  

  Patricia Riggen
  • Mind
  • Woman
  • Film

• When you get older, everybody sort of changes and moves away. I think that stands the test of time, when you have a friendship from youth that's still in your life today.

  

  Michelle Gomez
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Moving

• To apologize for what you most wanted to do, to concede that it was obnoxious, boring, 'vulgar and unsafe' - that was the worst thing.

  

  Alan Hollinghurst
  • Worst
  • Apologize
  • Concede

• It was to apologize, and apologizing means he remembers what happened, and that means being trapped in a nightmare that’s already come true.

  

  Beth Revis
  • Nightmare
  • Remembers
  • Apologize

• What will matter is the good we did, not the good we expected others to do.

  

  Elizabeth Lesser
  • Good
  • Matter
  • Expected

• The Christian apologist has become someone who is virtually expected to apologize for being a Christian, and that has to stop.

  

  Richard Platt
  • Someone
  • Expected
  • Apologize