Richard Rogers Quotes

I think greed is a critical problem - the gap between the poor and the rich. The gap between the top 10 percent and the bottom 10 percent.

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• Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.

  

  Ma Jian
  • Mind
  • Control
  • Thoughts

• Over the years, humans have managed to incorporate nearly every element, light and weighty, common and obscure, into our daily lives. And given how small atoms are and how many of them there are all around us, it's almost certain that your body has at least brushed against an atom of every single natural element on the periodic table.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Small
  • Light
  • Single

• I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.

  

  Pat Buckley
  • God
  • Nature
  • Environment

• If there were Israeli attacks on Iranian nuclear facilities, it makes it certain there would be a reprisal attack against the United States at some point.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • United States
  • Facilities

• It's hard not to get depressed when you pay attention to the world and how strangely and corrupt the people in it sometimes behave.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • World
  • Attention

• Outside of the mindless sitcoms that the networks thrive on, people able to think generally consider most entertainment is escape in one form or another.

  

  Gary Gygax
  • People
  • Think
  • Escape

• I didn't have a lot of communication with Elvis. You had to go through a barricade to get to Elvis. It was people hanging on every word, and I felt very uncomfortable a lot of times.

  

  Mac Davis
  • People
  • You
  • Communication

• I've always embraced failure as a noble pursuit. It allows you to be anti whatever anyone wants you to be, and to break all the rules.

  

  Malcolm Mclaren
  • Always
  • Failure
  • Rules

• I was just learning to play guitar when Tracy Chapman came out. She wrote these songs, she played them by herself and I so admired her for that.

  

  Madeleine Peyroux
  • Play
  • Learning
  • Songs

• The customer is always right: 'It's my money. You have to listen to me'.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Money
  • Always
  • Right

• Flannery O'Connor's brief life and slim output were nonetheless marked by piercing powers of observation.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Life
  • Observation
  • Brief

• Nearly all institutions, it might be said, are based on signs, but these signs do not directly evoke things.

  

  Ferdinand de Saussure
  • Said
  • Institutions
  • Signs

• What do you know? Haven't you heard of suspension of disbelief?

  

  Ed Wood
  • You
  • Know
  • Suspension

• On the Northern Ireland question, for instance, the British and Irish governments prohibit media contact with members of the IRA, but we have always gone ahead, believing in the right to information.

  

  Kate Adie
  • Question
  • Always
  • Information

• In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I've remained an Indian.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Nations
  • Many
  • Belonging

• There's a crazy amount of goodwill, and I don't know where it came from, and I don't understand, but the more I pay attention to it, the more it's going to sting when it flips, so I think I'm almost subconsciously cultivating this naivety to it all.

  

  Feist
  • Think
  • Know
  • Attention

• I think I already proved that I wasn't just fighting for the money, because I fought as an amateur. I fought 90 fights for free.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Money
  • Think
  • Free

• Ang Lee was educated in the West and his English is good.

  

  Zhang Yimou
  • Good
  • English
  • Educated

• We have this condition where digital technology is becoming increasingly smaller and distributed in the environment. In a certain sense, this is the first time ever we can describe a city in real time.

  

  Carlo Ratti
  • Time
  • Real
  • City

• Very, very slowly, the dwarf remnants of what was once our mighty sun will cool and dim, until it embarks on its final metamorphosis, gradually solidifying into a crystal of extraordinary rigidity. Eventually it will fade out completely, merging quietly into the blackness of space.

  

  Paul Davies
  • Extraordinary
  • Finals
  • Crystals

• I do probably come down a little hard on a group of people I call the 'blue chip gays.' I mean people who have managed to become very, very famous and are still very famous partly through staying in the closet, like Jasper Johns, Cy Twombly, Susan Sontag, Harold Brodkey and others.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
  • Famous
  • Blue

• I want to be a better person. I want to be a stronger person. I want to be someone who hurts less.

  

  Brian Molko Placebo
  • Person
  • Stronger
  • Hurts

• Whatever you do, please don’t think of sleep as wasted time, an indulgence, or a generous reservoir from which you can steal time for work. Do what your brain and body beg you to do: get enough sleep.

  

  Edward Hallowell
  • Work
  • Sleep
  • Indulgence

• I think greed is a critical problem - the gap between the poor and the rich. The gap between the top 10 percent and the bottom 10 percent.

  

  Richard Rogers
  • Problem
  • Bottom
  • Percent