Richard Rainwater Quotes
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I believe in the impossible because no one else does.
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A bad hair day for me is when it gets flat and greasy.
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What America does best is produce the ability to accept failure.
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When you look at where the Democratic field is going relative to foreign policy, they are increasingly moving away from a policy of pre-emptive self-defense that the president has adopted since September 11.
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In recent years, the government has lost more than five million fingerprints from government employees. They have lost hundreds of millions of credit numbers from financial institutions. This problem is happening more and more and more. And the only way we can protect ourselves is to make phones more and more secure.
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If you can believe it, I had no intentions of being a wrestler.
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In papergaming, players can look at a character sheet of their own creation and see all of their skills, right there, in black and white.
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Impatience is a virtue.
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Men still wear cologne, but I wish they wouldn't. No matter what you may believe, all men's fragrances smell like the air freshener in a taxi.
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When I edit, I'm not from the school of Hello, I'm a genius, so everybody shut up. I'm from the school of Let's play it once in front of an audience, and then I'll tell you where it is going.
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Sometimes when Australians go overseas, it's as though the 'Aussie' is refined out of them. I don't know why. It's never happened to me, because I'm really proud of it. I'm not embarrassed about where I'm from or who I am any more. I know who I am. I don't fit in everywhere, but I know where I do fit in.
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In a photo, you just do a click, but in art you have to put in so much energy. This concentration of energy and attention says something that other media cannot say.
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We need to make more original movies, and audiences would do well to support original movies for the future of the medium.
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I think really, China, Chinese, I think they really have a long history of civilization, rich culture.
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I've kind of walked into a realm where it's paid off for all the hard work that I've put into it, and I get to bless my family. And that's the one thing I love doing. I love giving.
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I hope I'm Jessica Tandy, you know. I hope I'm onstage, and I fall over at 85 or something with everyone applauding thinking that it was a joke, you know, 'There she goes again,' and I'm just gone. I've gone to Heaven.
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I'm a DJ who makes dance music who got to play with Sting.
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The trouble with normal is it always gets worse.
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I was incredibly lucky that my first book found a large and loyal readership. It changed my life - from being a very withdrawn adult to living in Paris as a full-time writer. It has also given me enormous confidence.
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People are paying no attention to the best act of worship: Humility.
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I used to buy things for every hotel room or every place I lived in to make it feel like home.
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I don't think that women necessarily always write like women. I was a writer on the Comedy Central Roasts for a while, and I always wrote the jokes that people assumed the men would write.
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Art does not copy nature - it suggests it.
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I'm just not the type who wants to draw attention to himself.
