Richard Rainwater Quotes
Someone asked me what are the secrets to my success, and I said 'There are three: Timing, timing, timing.'
Quotes to Explore
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The Saudi government's denial of basic rights to women is not only wrong, it hurts Saudi Arabia's economic development, modernization and prosperity.
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Cooperation and collaboration among nations and countries can help in the process of development of promoting welfare as well as bringing peace and stability.
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I needed to really pursue music and learn what I needed to learn on my own by getting in and doing it, not by reading a book about it.
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Nothing exists except through language.
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The simpler I keep things, the better I play.
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I love Queen Latifah! Queen Latifah is so beautiful! Every time you see her, if it's in a cosmetics ad, or on the red carpet, she's always flawless.
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I was poor. When you're poor you work, and when you're rich you expect somebody to hand it to you. So I think being reasonably poor is very good for people.
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You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.
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As long as the number one worry for people, keeping them up at nights, is whether they're going to have a job in the morning, then they are less likely to resist unfair changes, or unfair treatment, or cuts in real pay at work.
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I condemn any form of terrorism and especially the terrorism that would affect my country and me.
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Readers are very, very savvy, and I don't want to insult them by making them think I'm too lazy to get it right.
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I could sing in English before I could understand it because I phonetically learned it from the musicals.
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When it starts to seem like you have popped into bed with a specific party, it makes it difficult for people to believe you are not doing someone else's bidding for them.
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It didn't occur to me that it was possible to breathe life into Abraham Lincoln.
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Management must manage!
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It is a general truth that students of language in every era try to colonize some or all of the other human sciences.
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Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
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Yes, ISIS is a threat. It's more than a nuisance. It's also in many respects criminal violence. But it isn't, in my view, a central strategic issue facing humanity.
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Everything I've ever learned about acting - and I went to theater school - was about playing what the character wants and throwing yourself fully into going after what the character wants.
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At a young age, when I was fascinated with China, I read 'The Travels of Marco Polo' and learned about this exciting, dramatic world he captured and reported on. He's so little known, but yet this mythology has survived that's so misrepresentative of his story.
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You've got to ask! Asking is, in my opinion, the world's most powerful - and neglected - secret to success and happiness.
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You want to be a country that creates food stamps? In which case, frankly, Obama is an enormous success - the most successful food stamp president in American history. Or do you want to be a country that creates jobs?
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When a man doesn't know the meaning of the word 'fear', that might just be a deficiency in his education.
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Someone asked me what are the secrets to my success, and I said 'There are three: Timing, timing, timing.'
