Richard Rogers Quotes

I'm just saying that there are high quality materials, and when we change them then there should be a way of changing them so that you can celebrate that change - rather than just 'mix it up'.

Richard Rogers

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• It's very juicy to twirl your mustache and figure out why people do the horrible things that they do. It's not just because they are evil, but because that's how they somehow explain the world to themselves and justify themselves. It's always interesting figuring out how that happens.

  

  Zeljko Ivanek
  • People
  • World
  • Why

• Pat Riley, Dave Checketts and Ernie Grunfeld - they brought the Knicks back to the glory days. It started with Rick Pitino. We took our first step with him, making the playoffs. When Pat came in we just kicked the door open.

  

  Patrick Ewing
  • Door
  • Step
  • First Step

• It took me years of attempts and failed drafts before I finally wrote the elegies I needed to write.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Me
  • Years
  • Drafts

• I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Writing
  • Family
  • Friends

• Long for me as I for you, forgetting, what will be inevitable, the long black aftermath of pain.

  

  Malcolm Lowry
  • Long
  • Black
  • Pain

• I had to give myself permission to act, then others agreed.

  

  Edie McClurg
  • Myself
  • Act
  • Others

• I believe things happen that can't be explained, but so many people seem intent on explaining them. Everyone has an answer for them. Either aliens or things from the spirit world.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • People
  • World
  • Believe

• People think your success is just a matter of having a pretty face. But it's easy to be chewed up and spat out. You've got to stay ahead of the game to be able to stay in it.

  

  Kate Moss
  • People
  • Up
  • Game

• All great sci-fi is: Be careful what you wish for.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Great
  • You
  • Wish

• Normally, I spend a week on the outline and take two weeks to write the book.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Book
  • Week
  • Two

• I'm at Miramax now, where I've actually been treated like a Prince.

  

  Ted Demme
  • Like
  • Now
  • Prince

• Fundamental preparation is always effective. Work on those parts of your game that are fundamentally weak.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Work
  • Game
  • Preparation

• We have a mantra: don't be evil, which is to do the best things we know how for our users, for our customers, for everyone. So I think if we were known for that, it would be a wonderful thing.

  

  Larry Page
  • Think
  • Best
  • Evil

• In the case of Marilyn and John Kennedy, I think they did affect change.

  

  Sally Kirkland
  • Think
  • Change
  • Did

• No matter how strong and dedicated a leader may be, he must find root and strength amongst the people. He alone cannot save a nation. He may guide, he may set the tone, he may dedicate himself and risk his life, but only the people may save themselves.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • People
  • Life
  • May

• Much like addictive drugs, power uses ready-made reward circuitries in the brain, producing extreme pleasure.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • Power
  • Brain

• I know two kinds of audience only – one coughing, and one not coughing.

  

  Artur Schnabel

• I've spent a lot of years living with normal people. If I take a private jet to go to a meeting in Milan, well, that's my business; I can do it. But I don't live for it.

  

  Brunello Cucinelli
  • People
  • Live
  • Business

• I grew up in communist Russia where we didn't have anything, so I'm not worried that I can't buy an extra pair of shoes.

  

  Margarita Levieva
  • Up
  • Shoes

• My first movie ever was 'Breaking Away.' I stumbled into an incredible part in a movie that was incredible to be a part of. Peter Yates, the director, became a lifelong friend. He sort of plucked me from obscurity and gave me a life.

  

  Daniel Stern
  • Life
  • Movie
  • Friend

• There are no taxes that are unpaid, nor were there any taxes that I was responsible for that didn't get paid.

  

  Matt Bevin

• ...in the whole range of human activities, war most closely resembles a game of cards.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • War
  • Game

• In Europe, more than in the United States, worldly people, faced with my Indian skin, reflexively laud my 'ancient,' 'beautiful' origins, which is heartier praise than Cleveland usually gets from Europeans.

  

  Anand Giridharadas
  • People
  • Beautiful

• I'm just saying that there are high quality materials, and when we change them then there should be a way of changing them so that you can celebrate that change - rather than just 'mix it up'.

  

  Richard Rogers
  • Quality
  • Changing
  • Celebrate