Richard Roeper Quotes
You're not allowed to give yourself a nickname. This holds true in life as well as in poker.
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Phrases that have historical significance or become headlines don't just magically appear in the moment. They are mindfully planned.
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Writing sessions can last an hour or sixteen hours, depending on how it's going.
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I'm just so glad that I started acting when I did because I had this wealth of life experience. I don't know if I'd have been able to handle it had I gone out to L.A. at 22.
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Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.
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I'm an entrepreneur, a businessman. I've got a lot of money, and that doesn't go very well with the whole 'starving artist in a garret' routine.
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I'm 68 years old, and I'm as much a criminal now as I was at the age of 22. And, I'm even more of a dissident than I was then.
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I've come to feel that if I can't make something happen in under an hour and a half, it's not going to happen in a compelling way in a three-hour play.
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A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.
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The fact is, when men carry the same ideals in their hearts, nothing can isolate them - neither prison walls nor the sod of cemeteries. For a single memory, a single spirit, a single idea, a single conscience, a single dignity will sustain them all.
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Even as I think of myself as a 'rememberer,' I also know my memory is probably doing all this work to reconstruct a narrative where I come off better.
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All I'm going to say is I put my hand on a Bible, and I raised my right hand and swore to uphold the Constitution of the state of Florida.
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In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.
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Building a baseball team is like building a house. You look for the best architects, the best builders - and then you let them do their jobs.
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I worked with my dad for 15 years. I apprenticed under him and decided I wanted to become an architect. So I went to college for it and then the acting bug got me.
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I'm personally looking for artists that are along the lines of today's pop stars. Whether it be a Rihanna or a Justin Bieber or a Kanye West or a Beyonce or a Lady Gaga, I'm looking for talent that's like that, that's what I love.
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Bill Gates wants people to think he's Edison, when he's really Rockefeller. Referring to Gates as the smartest man in America isn't right... wealth isn't the same thing as intelligence.
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Makeup can help you capture a moment.
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I was one of those annoying kids that loves singing and entertaining.
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It is very important as a human being to be able to laugh at yourself and circumstances and particularly as a Christian. We have to know that good times don't last always and bad times don't last always.
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As an actor, you put yourself out there. You put yourself in the arena as an easy target.
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The golden opportunity you are seeking is within yourself.
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I don’t think a crow has ever even considered the categorical imperative.
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He who gives love, receives love.
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You're not allowed to give yourself a nickname. This holds true in life as well as in poker.
