Richard Rainwater Quotes
The essence of good business is knowing when to step on a train and when to step off.
Quotes to Explore
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A holiday vacation can mean sampling all kinds of new cuisine - whether it's Uncle Joe's award-winning chili or the exotic flavors of Nepal. If your little ones are fussy, be sure to ease mealtime hassles by bringing along a supply of the familiar foods they're accustomed to rejecting at home.
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We do have serious energy needs for the country, we are aware that natural gas is especially in demand because of its air quality benefits: 90 percent of new power plants have been natural gas-powered.
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Islamism is not Islam. Islamism is the politicisation of Islam, the desire to impose a version of this ancient faith over society.
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I realize I have strength as an artist and professional by embracing my difference instead of what makes me the same.
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The Disney Channel puts out movies, like, every couple of months.
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The family code in Egypt is one of the worst family codes in the Arab world. Polygamy. The husband is having absolute power over the family.
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When writing 'Give and Take' and 'Originals,' the predominant emotion for me was curiosity.
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I think songwriting is the ultimate form of being able to make anything that happens in your life productive.
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Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong.
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I'm attracted to the rag & bone aesthetic - classic and effortless with an edge.
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Expressing myself through language was always something that I had had to learn to do more so than others.
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To read a paper book is another experience: you can do it on a ship, on the branch of a tree, on your bed, even if there is a blackout.
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So I guess I had, I think they tell me I had, about three years total of piano lessons, off and on.
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I was always fascinated by politics, and I was exposed to it quite a lot.
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Being brave isn't the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it.
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Ever since we published the first Apple report, we've had some other brands turning more proactive.
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I think comedy stems from being honest, often painfully so. I hope I can achieve that perspective in my own life and also have fun.
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You always want your films to go as far as they can.
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Fault lines run along color lines in American public life, and the women's movement is no exception. Over the years, feminism has become more inclusive but there is still hard work to be done to include LGBT women and communities of color.
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Both 'The Daily Show' and 'The Colbert Report,' you're working with the best. When you work with the best, you have to raise your game. If you're working with people who are sub par, you're not forced to give 100 percent because you can get by on 80 percent.
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My journey continues, because I've, you know, conquered a lot. And I know how to conquer the rest.
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I learned this early on in the variety business: You've got to give folks responsibility, you've got to trust them, and then you've got to check on them.
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The horror of knowing someone and living with them and even thinking you're lucky and then wham and now you know that every person is really two people and how can you ever know what the other half is up to.
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The essence of good business is knowing when to step on a train and when to step off.
