Richard Rainwater Quotes
I view real estate as the most intriguing opportunity that I've seen in my business lifetime.
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We got a chance to go and play in some places that the usual European tour by an American band didn't go to.
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We need to move past blame and make sure we are delivering care to our veterans.
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As a young man you don't notice at all that you were, after all, badly affected. For years afterwards, at least ten years, I kept getting these dreams, in which I had to crawl through ruined houses, along passages I could hardly get through.
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In Valdosta, Ga., during a mini-tour event, a player named James Black bet me $20 he could put five golf balls in his mouth and then close his mouth all the way. I tried it but could get only two in there.
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Touring is tough. You're almost in a haze because you don't really know where you are half the time: You're in a hotel room one moment, and the next thing you know, you're onstage performing for 60,000 people, then you're back on an airplane. It's very hectic and I couldn't do it without my family.
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Cinematic icons of the police detective are more male role models than female.
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Everyone should change; otherwise, you can't grow as a person in life.
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You have to think hard with a tattoo. 'What will I love for the rest of my life?'
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I am more of a suspense writer. A mystery writer solves mysteries. I am a 'high suspense' writer.
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Those of us lucky enough to fall in love with Asia know that it's an affair that's as long as it is resonant.
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Everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new ideas.
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Asthma doesn't affect me, even though I have it. It can seem like it wants to act up a little if I'm nervous before going on stage, but that's natural to many performers. If I think it's going to be a problem, I just reach for my inhaler.
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I would be ecstatic if the very first writer to step foot in a Storyknife cabin was an Alaska Native woman writer.
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If you want my answer about Donald Trump, you can Google it. It's everywhere. They've got this new thing called Google.
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The perils of duck hunting are great - especially for the duck.
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For years, people had been saying, 'You guys should have a reality show - it would be crazy,' and I didn't pay much attention to that talk, but the idea did stay in the back of my mind.
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I've never written a song that I thought was a hit.
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Europe is one of the best travel destinations in the world.
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Because school was so terrible was probably why I was driven to write.
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Compassion, however, should mean providing a mechanism to escape poverty rather than simply maintaining people in an impoverished state by supplying handouts. By doing this we give them an opportunity to elevate their personal situations, which eventually decreases our need to take care of them and empowers them to be able to exercise compassion toward others.
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Every time you talk to this person, you lie.
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I think Haiti is a place that suffers so much from neglect that people only want to hear about it when it’s at its extreme. And that’s what they end up knowing about it.
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People are pretty simple: they do what they are rewarded for doing. If they get multimillion-dollar bonuses by taking huge risks with other people's money - as they still do - then they will continue to take those huge risks, and not give it another thought.
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I view real estate as the most intriguing opportunity that I've seen in my business lifetime.
